Anneliese Varaldiev
Flutist, soprano and sound artist Alice Teyssier ['ɑlis 'tesje] brings “something new, something fresh, but also something uncommonly beautiful” (UT San Diego) to her performances. Hailed as possessing a "transcendently clarion and clear" (New York Times) voice with “unusual depth” (Badische Zeitung), Alice’s mission is to share lesser-known masterpieces and develop a rich and vibrant repertoire that reflects the human experience in our era.
“An arresting soprano, in all senses” (LA Times), Alice has appeared as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, the San Francisco New Music Players, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, the 21st Century Consort, Bourbon Baroque and the Bach Collegium San Diego, amongst others. She is a regular guest to the Monday Evening Concerts series, where she has premiered numerous works—from Salvatore Sciarrino to Cassandra Miller. As a complement to her activities as "a virtuosic soloist" (SF Chronicle) with a variety of ensembles, Alice is a core ensemble player with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), with which she has toured to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, France, Brazil, Cuba, Abu Dhabi, Houston, Boston (...), and has been a mainstay of the group’s residency at the Ojai Festival and Ensemble Evolution program at Banff. With the group, Alice has premiered new large-scale works by Wojtek Blecharz, Ann Cleare, Natacha Diels, Vijay Iyer, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Sabrina Schroeder, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and Monte Weber, amongst many others. She performs frequently with Peter Evans and his bands SYMPHONY and Being & Becoming, as well as in Trinket, a quartet formed in 2024. With Michael Weyandt and Bradley Scott Rosen, she composes and performs as The Atelier, a uniquely organized music-image-movement ensemble, which was featured on the 2016 Resonant Bodies Festival in New York.
This season, Alice appears in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Symphony Space, Tenri Cultural Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, Bohemian National Hall, the Century Club, Miller Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Pioneer Works and the Brooklyn Public Library, as well as on the campus of NYU. She will be premiering new works by the Iceberg New Music composers, Camila Agosto, Joshua Biggs, Rick Burkhardt, Modney, David Sanford, Nina Young, and Jue Wang as well as presenting and recording her own new compositions. She is very proud to return to Australia for performances of Tyshawn Sorey's Perle Noire at the Adelaide Festival, to her alma mater Oberlin for two separate projects, recording and masterclasses, and to Royaumont (France) for Voix Nouvelles.
In 2007, Alice was “haunting” in the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera 'Lost Highway', after the David Lynch film, at Miller Theater; she has since presented many modern operas by composers such as Anthony Davis, Esteban Insinger, Pauline Oliveros & IONE and Viktor Ullman and continues to forge new ways of creating and developing the operatic stage with her collaborators. She has been instrumental in creating roles in Ashley Fure's 'Force of Things', previewed at the 2016 Darmstadt Summer Courses and premiered at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ, and Clara Latham's 'Talking Cure' (Anna O.), presented in its premiere concert version at Roulette Intermedium in summer 2018.
Connecting her work to the world and people of all walks of life is important to Alice, and she devotes much of her time in the educational and engagement realm. As a soloist and with ICE, she has given residencies for composers and performers of new music at such universities as Brown, Harvard, Huddersfield, Leeds, Michigan, SUNY- Buffalo and Stanford. Besides working with college and graduate students, Alice has made a mission of engaging younger children in the creative process; her work with OpenICE and EntICE initiatives has borne fruit with the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, The People's Music School in Chicago, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, USDAN (Long Island), and UpBeat NYC (Bronx).
Since 2018, much of Alice's creative life has been fueled by her transformed role as a mother. Through her Thresholds project, she composes, devises and collaborates around themes of life transitions. In 2021, she joined forces with several other artist mothers in founding MATRICALIS, a project and community hub that reflects on the impact of motherhood on individual musicians, providing them with resources, open forums and advocacy.
Born in Australia of French parents, Alice has lived all around the United States, France and Germany and continues to perform on all continents. She has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM, MM Opera Theater), the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (Specialization Diploma) and holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California-San Diego. Since 2017, she serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Performance in the Music Department of New York University's Faculty of Arts and Science. Alice lives in Brooklyn with her husband Bradley Scott Rosen and their two vivacious children.
“An arresting soprano, in all senses” (LA Times), Alice has appeared as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, the San Francisco New Music Players, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, the 21st Century Consort, Bourbon Baroque and the Bach Collegium San Diego, amongst others. She is a regular guest to the Monday Evening Concerts series, where she has premiered numerous works—from Salvatore Sciarrino to Cassandra Miller. As a complement to her activities as "a virtuosic soloist" (SF Chronicle) with a variety of ensembles, Alice is a core ensemble player with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), with which she has toured to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, France, Brazil, Cuba, Abu Dhabi, Houston, Boston (...), and has been a mainstay of the group’s residency at the Ojai Festival and Ensemble Evolution program at Banff. With the group, Alice has premiered new large-scale works by Wojtek Blecharz, Ann Cleare, Natacha Diels, Vijay Iyer, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Sabrina Schroeder, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir and Monte Weber, amongst many others. She performs frequently with Peter Evans and his bands SYMPHONY and Being & Becoming, as well as in Trinket, a quartet formed in 2024. With Michael Weyandt and Bradley Scott Rosen, she composes and performs as The Atelier, a uniquely organized music-image-movement ensemble, which was featured on the 2016 Resonant Bodies Festival in New York.
This season, Alice appears in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Symphony Space, Tenri Cultural Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, Bohemian National Hall, the Century Club, Miller Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Pioneer Works and the Brooklyn Public Library, as well as on the campus of NYU. She will be premiering new works by the Iceberg New Music composers, Camila Agosto, Joshua Biggs, Rick Burkhardt, Modney, David Sanford, Nina Young, and Jue Wang as well as presenting and recording her own new compositions. She is very proud to return to Australia for performances of Tyshawn Sorey's Perle Noire at the Adelaide Festival, to her alma mater Oberlin for two separate projects, recording and masterclasses, and to Royaumont (France) for Voix Nouvelles.
In 2007, Alice was “haunting” in the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s opera 'Lost Highway', after the David Lynch film, at Miller Theater; she has since presented many modern operas by composers such as Anthony Davis, Esteban Insinger, Pauline Oliveros & IONE and Viktor Ullman and continues to forge new ways of creating and developing the operatic stage with her collaborators. She has been instrumental in creating roles in Ashley Fure's 'Force of Things', previewed at the 2016 Darmstadt Summer Courses and premiered at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ, and Clara Latham's 'Talking Cure' (Anna O.), presented in its premiere concert version at Roulette Intermedium in summer 2018.
Connecting her work to the world and people of all walks of life is important to Alice, and she devotes much of her time in the educational and engagement realm. As a soloist and with ICE, she has given residencies for composers and performers of new music at such universities as Brown, Harvard, Huddersfield, Leeds, Michigan, SUNY- Buffalo and Stanford. Besides working with college and graduate students, Alice has made a mission of engaging younger children in the creative process; her work with OpenICE and EntICE initiatives has borne fruit with the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, The People's Music School in Chicago, the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, USDAN (Long Island), and UpBeat NYC (Bronx).
Since 2018, much of Alice's creative life has been fueled by her transformed role as a mother. Through her Thresholds project, she composes, devises and collaborates around themes of life transitions. In 2021, she joined forces with several other artist mothers in founding MATRICALIS, a project and community hub that reflects on the impact of motherhood on individual musicians, providing them with resources, open forums and advocacy.
Born in Australia of French parents, Alice has lived all around the United States, France and Germany and continues to perform on all continents. She has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM, MM Opera Theater), the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (Specialization Diploma) and holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California-San Diego. Since 2017, she serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Performance in the Music Department of New York University's Faculty of Arts and Science. Alice lives in Brooklyn with her husband Bradley Scott Rosen and their two vivacious children.