Welcome to Alison Melville’s website.

Here you can find CD and concert listings, biographical notes, reviews, information on some of the groups with which Alison plays, photos, links, and more.

You can also listen to sound clips.

She’s Sweetest when she’s Naked (EMCCD-7761):

"Where Melville especially shines is in the seven solo tunes from Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion…Here the sound is close and intimate, and she shapes the phrases marvelously; music, breath, and ornaments are as one. This is art beyond time – the moment might last forever."
—Early Music America, Winter 2008

New distribution! NAXOS is now the distributor for Early-Music.com in the USA and Canada, so this CD should be easier to find.

Released August 2009:

SOMETHING in the AIR Flute Music from the Bird Project

VIKINGS on VACATION With Ensemble Polaris!

See the Bird Project and Polaris pages for more information.

"As always, Alison Melville’s playing is exquisitely executed with warmth, wit and tenderness…these airs, dance tunes, variations and sonatas are performed with the grace, humour and touching sensitivity inherent in the music."

—The WholeNote

"There are many recorder players around who can do phenomenal things with their seemingly simple instrument - Melville is certainly one of these, as is evident from her lightning-fast and superbly controlled playing...her playing is always centred, full of telling detail, and sympathetically integrated with her assisting artists."

—Classical Music Magazine

"I think she's excellent."

—Children's Page, Richmond Hill Mirror

The music you’re hearing, if everyone’s technology is in harmony,
is Bannocks of Beer Meal (Anonymous).

If you like it here, check out
myspace.com/alisonmelvilleflutes 
or myspace.com/thebirdproject

Thanks for visiting!

Banner photos: Paul Orenstein