About Alex.

With a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of North Texas, Alex Choyce brings a solid foundation in music theory and composition. His formal training includes private study with Panayiotis Kokoras, Kirsten Soriano, Alain Mayrand, and Saad Haddad. Ranging from solo works to full orchestra, his compositions display a command of post-tonal aesthetics, drawing inspiration from Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Herbert Howells, John Coolidge Adams, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Steve Reich, and, most notably, Igor Stravinsky. He is dedicated to achieving creative execution of novel ideas with idiomatic proficiency. This is done primarily in a linear fashion and is best articulated by Stravinsky, his favorite composer: 

 

"I had only my ear to help me; I heard, and I wrote what I heard. I am the vessel through which The Rite passed." 

 

As a vessel of musical ideas, Alex finds they often unfold in an unnamed musical narrative, which is heavily influenced by chronology and symmetrical correlations. He hopes that his music will offer a sublime experience for the listener and inspire a desire to create in response to the adoration of sound.