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Alexandra Hope Watson grew up reading Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, and performing some of the monologues as a speech and drama student.
Now doing her doctorate in music arts at the University of Canterbury, Alexandra has transformed 19 of Carroll's nonsense poems into a musical to be performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra tomorrow.
A Magical Musical Mystery is the first collaboration between a student composer and the CSO, and came about after she pitched the idea to the orchestra's creative director two years ago.
Alexandra is a composer, who also plays piano, violin, cello, flute, harp, and sings. She also has a science degree majoring in mathematics as well as a private pilot's licence, with which she does aerobatics.
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