Alice McVeigh was born in South Korea, of American diplomatic parents, and lived in South-East Asia until she was 13, when the family returned to the suburbs of Washington D.C. She then began to learn to play the ’cello, winning among other competitions the Beethoven Society of Washington ’Cello Competition, as well as being selected as a finalist in the Music Teachers National Association Young Soloists Competition and the National Symphony of Washington Young Concert Artists Award. She achieved a B.Mus. with distinction in performance at Indiana University School of Music and in the 1980s came to London to study privately with Jacqueline du Pré’s “’cello daddy,” William Pleeth. Since then she has freelanced with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, all over the E.U., America and the Far East, including Carnegie Hall. In addition, she has performed ’cello concertos (among them, concertos by Dvořák, Elgar, Saint-Saëns, Don Quixote, and Schelomo) with orchestras including the Bromley Symphony Orchestra, the Waveney Sinfonia, the Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra and the Sussex Philharmonic. She has been the ’cello principal of the Bromley Symphony Orchestra since 1983. Alice is accompanied today by Tracey Renwick.