Alicia Santee-Davis graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in 2012 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition, where she studied with Dr. Lawrence Dillon. She has composed pieces for several solo performers and ensembles, including the saxophone quartet, percussion ensemble, piano, wind ensemble, voice, and violin, as well as a composition for symphony orchestra and solo mezzo-soprano voice. Her compositions have been premiered by students and faculty members from UNCSA, and recorded by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Forecast Music, and members of the North Carolina Symphony. She is also a current member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Having grown up in Kansas City, Alicia has been exposed to many avenues in music, including local jazz bands and the Kansas City Symphony, as well as performing with the Kansas City Metro Opera and the Kansas All-State Honor Band. Alicia has been the recipient of the John Philip Sousa Band Award, the Kenneth Frazelle Composition Scholarship, the Martha and Spencer Love Endowed Scholarship in Music, the Vittorio Giannini Scholarship, and the Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholarship. She has also been an active percussionist and pianist for over 25 years, having studied with John R. Beck, JoEllen McGuire, Jim Clanton, and Kenneth Frazelle. She has competed and performed as both a piano soloist and a marimba soloist, in addition to performing in several chamber ensembles and accompanying many solo instrumentalists and vocalists.

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