Alwynne Pritchard was born in Glasgow in 1968. Encouraged by her father, the composer Gwyn Pritchard, she began composing as a teenager, and went on to study composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music, and later with Justin Connolly and Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded many prizes for her work. Since then, Alwynne?s music has been performed by artists such as the Arditti String Quartet, Apartment House, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Ian Brown, Gemini, Nicolas Hodges, John Kenny, Ixion, London Sinfonietta, Lontano, Ian Pace and the Uroboros Ensemble, at festivals including Bath, Brighton, Chard, Glasgow (Music Nova), and Huddersfield, as well as at venues throughout Europe and Scandinavia. Her work has been broadcast both on BBC Radios 3 and 4, as well as abroad, and has been distinguished by critics for its ?strong spare language? and ?restrained eloquence?.

"Her intriguingly scored Craw was clearly dictated by the ear rather than by formula and had a corresponding aural appeal in its delicate colouring and sensitive applications of dynamic pressure" - Gerald Larner, The Times

In 2005 Alwynne formed the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY and a year later the trio Myrtle, with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland came into being. Her most recent performance project is the duo Ding Dong with German improviser and hardware circuit bender Guido Henneböhl.
Alwynne Pritchard teaches composition at Trinity College of Music in London and works as a freelance presenter for BBC Radio 3.