Australian recorder player Alana Blackburn is highly regarded throughout Australia and Europe as a soloist and ensemble musician.  With a passion for both early and contemporary music, recorder player Alana Blackburn performs music spanning over 500 years; often finding ways to incorporate medieval, renaissance and baroque repertoire and modern composition either through juxtaposition and/or assimilation within a work or program. 

Alana has performed with a number of ensembles including The Australian Recorder Project, The Royal Wind Music, The New Dutch Academy, Salut! Baroque, The Bell Shakespeare Company, Pinchgut Opera, The Sydney Consort, ThoroughBass, The Tall Poppeas and The Sydneian Bach Choir.  As a soloist, she has performed concerti with The Early Music Ensemble of the Sydney Conservatorium, The Manly-Warringah Symphony Orchestra, Coro Innominata and The Bourbaki Ensemble. She has also performed live in Radio broadcasts throughout Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands.

Alana is a graduate of the Sydney and Amsterdam Conservatories and holds a PhD which investigated the professional identity of chamber musicians and group processes. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of New England.

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