Alise Siliņa
With this scholarship I will be able to focus much more on my musical development rather than worrying about working in a non-music related job.
Latvian classical accordionist, Alise Siliņa, is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music, studying under Owen Murray. During her undergraduate studies at the Academy, she collaborated with artists from diverse disciplines and worked alongside renowned performing arts organizations, including Shakespeare’s Globe, Barefoot Opera Company, and The Music Troupe.
Her artistic focus lies in crossover art and the narrative power of performance. While living in London, she has collaborated with actors, dancers, writers, composers, lighting designers, directors, filmmakers, and animators to create interdisciplinary performances that blend music with storytelling and visual expression.
While Alise regularly collaborates on the artistic projects of others, she has also developed her own independent performance concepts. Her first solo concert came in 2023 with Aethereally, a work that brought together her own poetry and narration with classical accordion repertoire. Developed in collaboration with New Stages Creations, the performance combined music, text, audio, and visuals to create an immersive concert experience.
In 2025, she made her solo debut at the Royal Festival Hall, opening Alexis Ffrench’s headline concert. Later that year, she returned with another solo concert, Behind the Seen, this time presenting it in Latvia—a performance entirely shaped by her vision, integrating self-written text, narration, and a creative light show into a powerful journey that guided the audience through shifting emotional states of grief, melancholy, love, loss, confusion, and anger through music and storytelling. That same summer, she also created Planetary, commissioning and premiering five new solo accordion works. In this project, composers from England, America, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea drew inspiration from the cosmos, stars, and the mysteries of the universe, each contributing a distinctive artistic voice to the theme.
Alongside her solo projects, Alise has built a diverse portfolio of professional engagements. She took part in two separate productions of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2022 and 2024, performing in over one hundred shows across both seasons. In 2024, she also collaborated with Barefoot Opera in their production of La Traviata and premiered two miniature operas by composer Edward Lambert, written for singers and solo accordion. During her studies at the Academy, Alise founded the Allora Ensemble, a collaboration between string players and accordion that explores both classical and contemporary repertoire.
Alise’s studies have been supported by several prestigious awards. During her undergraduate degree, she was a recipient of the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship. Her Master’s degree is generously supported by the Royal Academy of Music Scholarship Fund, the Munster Trust, Help Musicians, and the LSO Scholarship.
