ALICIA ENSTROM
winner EAR4
Frenzied Whispers.
Performed by Shattered Glass at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City on 9.20.18.
Alicia’s work as a violinist, composer, and producer blurs the boundaries between tradition and innovation. She performs as a soloist (Royal Albert Hall, Samso Island, Cow Palace), contributes to soundtracks (Call of Duty, The Walking Dead), and has collaborated with Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, John Legend, and Chris Stapleton.
Alicia has held fellowships at renowned music festivals including Brevard, Henry Mancini, and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she served as concertmaster and soloist under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas and Keith Lockhart. Her compositions have been featured in short films, commercials, interactive art, dance productions, and orchestral works, including her award-winning piece at The Ear Classical Composition Competition (2018) and recognition as a top finalist at the 2020 Sundance Institute Composers Lab at Skywalker Ranch.
She is the winner of the 2021 International Songwriting Competition for Instrumental Music and the Unsigned Only Competition (2020), and was nominated for the Academy of Country Music’s Specialty Instrument Player of the Year (2020). Recent performance highlights include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (2021, 2022), touring with Kelsea Ballerini (Heartfirst Tour 2022), recording for Luke Combs’ Getting Old album, and currently touring with Ed Sheeran.