Alice Bauer
Born into a musical family in Prague (brother Varhan O. Bauer is a composer and conductor of the Okamžitý Filmový Orchestr – OFO), she fell in love with the piano at an early age. Later studied at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory in parallel with her studies at Charles University in Prague, but was then lured into singing and jazz which is now her number one priority. Alice's activities revolve not only around jazz and blues, but also original projects, such as the Jazzika band and Cosmic Passengers / Hi-Fi.
Has recently been collaborating extensively with Jan Kořínek and the Groove band, with whom she recorded the album Our Kind of Blues, and, virtually from its inception, has been a key member of the OFO (Worchester Scandal –as a pianist). Alice has sung a number of her brother songs in films, documents, books, and music, amongst others, in addition to the quasi baroque aria in Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts with the very same orchestra. She is also a member of the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra (OPSO) led by Pavel Klikar, still going strong as a world-renowned ensemble and one of the few bands on the planet to interpret jazz from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s and transpose it into an uncannily faithful 20th century-style with improvisation, arrangements, techniques and vocal performance.
Alice happily and skillfully translates her own written texts from and into English which has become a second mother tongue, a language without which her music is incomplete. An example of her work in Czech can be found on Ondrej Ruml’s debut album Metamorphosis.