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Alex Etchart
400+
Shows
125
Compositions
5
Film Festival
Selections

Whether singing, composing across instruments,
arranging for choirs or making theatre & film,
my work centres stories of resilience,
radical joy, releasing worldgrief,
and building utopias.

“The most refreshing and uplifting album in 2025”

— LWM

“One of the most important pieces of theatre you’ll see this year”

— The Independent on S.W.Opera 2016

Performance

Performance-ready projects that showcase fierce original writing & timeless folk storytelling in English & Uruguayan Spanish.

Vientos performance

Vientos Band

7-piece band fresh off a UK tour, perfect for parties & festivals.

Euphoric folk snogging Latin Rock, drenched in harmony. Original music by Alex to get crowds jumping to an earthy, girthy new sound.

Trio performance

Vientos Trio

River deep, mountain wide, euphoric folk for earthy utopias

Intimate acoustic originals channeling 3-part harmony, South American guitar, British Isles & Irish folk sounds, bass clarinet & violin.

Storytelling show

Storytelling Show

A history of South American revolutions through folk music

1-2 hour personal & political music & spoken word sharing songs from Chile, Argentina & Uruguay that shaped social movements over 60 years.

A Cappella Choir

A Cappella Choir

Songs of joy & justice with pro singers & local choirs

Vocal performances celebrating the power of unaccompanied voices in harmony.

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Debut Album

Songs of joy and justice to sing truth to power & weave communities together.

★★★★

“Oral history for the digital age”

Songlines

“demonstrates the power of music to unite, uplift and empower people - so brave”

“Stunning”

LWM

10 original a cappella songs recorded with 60 singers from 3 guest choirs including Fire Choir, Queer Murga & a pop-up QT Choir. From odes to sunsets, trans solidarity anthems, gospel-inspired call and response to a cappella salsas, it is a dance between genres and moods, all for the love of harmony.

Music parts are freely available online for choirs, community & campaigns & the show can be booked as a solo, trio, or 9 piece with percussion plus Alex can work with your local choir, all levels & abilities to involve them in a concert in your area.

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Composition

Jazz, classical, folk, & electronica || Long-form, short-form, rich & complex, accessible & fun || All ages, topics, specific communities

I've composed across instruments & genres, connecting stories old & new, catering for different audiences & objectives, whether rich, complex melodies & harmonic journeys or channeling simplicity to invite the public to join in.

I've written over 50+ songs for myself, 20 commissions plus a 2.5hr musical. I've facilitated the composition of 40+ collaborative songs in workshops & residencies

I've written contemporary classical blues jazz funk soul pop British Isles/Irish folk nufolk

Specially for: string quartets brass woodwind salsa percussion candombe & Uruguayan Murga

I have arranged vocally & instrumentally for all the above plus zamba samba milonga (tango) MPB cueca Canción Nueva Chilena tropicalía

I sing tenor A2 - F#5 and play classical guitar steel-strung guitar piano clarinet charango cuatro Venezolano congas bongos cajón djembe analogue synth samplers & sequencers.

I produce in Ableton 12 Suite using UAD plugins/preamps AnalogLab FabFilter Valhalla Melda Melodyne Soundtoys iZotope UVI Falcon Serum Pigments.

Leaftape

Leaftape

Italian residency of electronic music producers co-writing 4 albums.
Alex sang & produced on 4 tracks.

Leaftape

Potenti

Potenti

Experimental SATB operatic journey, translated & sung in Latin, underscoring Katarzyna Łukasik's surrealist 3D animation

Potenti

SATB Studio Edit
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October Fiesta

October Fiesta

5 original pieces commissioned for ITZATNA, Birmingham's Day of the Dead kids' theatre cycle. Eerie soundscapes, Carnival Music, character theme songs, audio cues.

October Fiesta

Coyote 1 / 7 0:00 / 0:00
SW Opera

SW Opera

A 2.5hr musical with 20 songs, overture & finale, leitmotif, spanning jazz, classical, pop, hip-hop & electronica. Key songs devised with the community.

SW Opera

2017 Live Highlights
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Molly's Masquerade

Molly's Masquerade

Original songs, community devised lyrics & classical arrangement of Lil Nas X for a queer choir for a Heritage Lottery project on London's 18th c. queer underground.

Molly's Masquerade

World We Deserve 1 / 4 0:00 / 0:00
Edible Utopia

Edible Utopia

Composing songs for rhubarb, worms & mushrooms at Somerset House thru Clare Patey's project around circular economies, rooftop jungles & urban rewilding.

Edible Utopia

Rhubarb Jam 1 / 3 0:00 / 0:00
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Short Film

Alex' debut 11 minute short Johnny Barnes takes a lost folk song to a genderqueer utopia.

5 film festivals, 3 countries

  • Encounters, Bristol, UK
  • Sunrise Film Festival, Lowestoft, UK
  • Glasgow Zine Fest, UK
  • Go Short, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • ReelOUT Festival, Kingston, Canada

Impact in 12 Schools

210 young people, 150 teachers

Workshops engage young people around trans/non-binary hxstory via storytelling & train teachers to leverage arts, hxstory & geography to do the same.

Co-Designed Pantheon

by non-binary emerging artists

We asked: “If you were a goddex what would you be? What powers would you have? Over what human aspects you be custodian?”. Custom costumes, props & choreography were co-designed with the performers.

Industry Level Production

written, directed, performed by Alex

Filmed on ARRI Alexa Mini with a full camera team in a temple, a boat at sea, catacombs & open fields with support from Arts Council England.

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Fire Choir

Folk for Social Change community choir on Monday's 7-9pm in King's Cross.

Fire Choir taps into a rich repertoire of songs rooted in social change, British Isles and Irish folk from the present going back hundreds of years, and songs in multiple languages. Fire Choir take songs to the streets, show solidarity at demonstrations, community centres, movement organising events and local charities.

Highlights - what sets us apart

  • No experience necessary! No auditions! No sheet music!
  • Learn songs by ear, with clear recordings of each part
  • High level singing, rich arrangements for all vocal ranges
  • Easier arrangements for community settings & encouraging others to join in
  • Challenging arrangements with jazzy harmonies develop musicianship & resonance
  • Members welcomed to outreach to frontline communities to offer song in solidarity
  • Regular socials, DIY singing circles & outings to uplifting cultural events together
  • Opportunities to extend your musical skills & nurture song leading skills at additional workshops
Alex brings a vast array of physical, vocal and breath warm-ups to ensure vocal health and longitudinal growth.

There are recovering opera singers, consummate folkies and complete newbies year round. You can expect around 50 to 70 choir members in each session.

Channel your joy and love for your neighbour, worldgrief and political rage, through powerful resonant community that feeds the fire in your belly!

Mondays
7-9pm
King's Cross
Join Fire Choir