Alexandra Mison (she/her) is a composer and pianist based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Her compositional style is driven by emotive, lyrical melodies and she often finds herself drawing inspiration from nature and little moments in everyday life. She has composed works for a range of ensembles and instrumentations, including solo piano, chamber ensemble, symphony orchestra, wind symphony and SATB choir. Her compositions have been premiered and performed by Vox Llinette, Queensland Youth Orchestra 3, QYO Wind Symphony, Pulse Chamber Orchestra and Sketch Ensemble, both in Australia and internationally. In 2022/23, Alexandra was a composer fellow for the Vox Camerata Choral Collective Residency Programme, through which her piece Nostalgia (for SATB) was premiered in Singapore in March 2023. She has also recently composed three new works for Queensland Youth Orchestras, as one of their 2023 composers-in-residence. In 2021, Alexandra was also awarded a Special Mention in the Australian Women’s Wind Band Composition Award. In addition to chamber and orchestral works, she has composed the original scores for two short films and contributed to the creation of new scores for the 1920’s silent films The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu, performed with Sketch Ensemble. Alexandra holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours)/Science from the University of Queensland, where she studied composition, under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Davidson, and physics.