Alice McVeigh

Alice McVeigh was born in South Korea, of American diplomatic parents, and lived in Southeast Asia until she was 13, when the family returned to the suburbs of Washington D.C. She then began to play the cello, winning, among others, the Beethoven Society of Washington cello competition, as well as being selected as a finalist in the National Music Teachers Association Young Soloists competition and the National Symphony of Washington Young Concert Artists award. She achieved a B.Mus with distinction in performance at the famous conservatory at Indiana University School of Music in 1980, the same year in which she came to London to study privately with William Pleeth. Since then she has freelanced with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique all over the UK, the EU, America and the Far East.Alice has written fiction all her life, but never attempted publication until the 1990s when her first two novels (While the Music Lasts and Ghost Music) were published by Orion, and her first play (Beating Time) by New Theatre Productions. (This play was later produced in London). In 2001 her first non-fiction book was published (All Risks Musical, Pocket Press.)