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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a British-Belgian film composer, rising in the neoclassical scene as one of the UK鈥檚 upcoming artists. Her work blends sound worlds with her love for the piano, orchestrated into a rich palette of electronica and classical music. She has been nominated for 鈥榖est score鈥� for three of her soundtracks, winning an award for 鈥榖est music鈥� for the surreal art and dance film Divided We Scroll (commissioned by the Barbican, London). Alexandra鈥檚 critically-acclaimed debut album 2 Years Stranger was described by BBC Radio 6鈥檚 Mary Anne Hobbes as 鈥渉auntingly beautiful鈥� and The Guardian as having a 鈥渄evastating emotional effect鈥�. Alexandra has released with several labels including Piano & Coffee Records and Icelandic new classical label INNI founded by film composer Atli 脰rvarsson and sees merging her film scores and artist work as fundamental to her love of combining sound worlds and story-telling through music. She has performed alongside artists such as TSHA, Throwing Snow and Gabriel 脫lafs and studied continuous piano techniques with Lubomyr Melnyk. Alexandra has an ongoing collaborative relationship with Her Ensemble, releasing an arrangement of Coma to celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day, joining them on stage and working on soundtrack and solo releases together. Her love of collaboration has also led to projects with artists such as violinist and composer Anna Phoebe on film score Until We Touch. Alexandra is known for reworking other artists tracks including a rework for Vanbur releasing on Human Reworked alongside Mogwai and Katie Gately and Hector Plimmer鈥檚 Next to Nothing - remixed alongside artists such as Matthew Herbert. Her first collaboration EP Ciara released at the end of 2022 with producing artist and songwriter Mara Simpson. Her most recent film collaborations extend her artist work collaborating with BAFTA Scotland-winning team Melt The Fly to create the score for Long Live My Happy Head and BAFTA Scotland-winning director Emma Davie on The Oil Machine.