Biography
Fiona Brice, a British composer and violinist, launched her professional path toward the close of the 1990s after finishing studies at the Royal Academy of Music. At that stage she gained widest recognition through her contributions to Placebo, especially their 2006 album Meds; her own debut arrived in 2016 with the largely instrumental Postcards From, a set of lean cinematic pieces each tied to a different city she had visited. Her follow-up, the 2022 release And You Know I Care, featured richer arrangements and included her own vocals.
Born in Northampton, England, Brice completed degrees at both King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music before her earliest projects took shape. Those included performances with Dream City Film Club on their 1999 album In the Cold Light of the Morning as well as stints alongside the London groups Tram and Jack. While working as a session violinist—appearing on British television alongside Gorillaz, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Sugababes—she also began supplying arrangements for other musicians. Her initial credited work appeared on Michael J. Sheehy’s 2000 solo debut Sweet Blue Gene; around the same period she played on releases by Vashti Bunyan, Tindersticks, and Ed Harcourt.
Brice first collaborated with Placebo in 2005, providing string arrangements for the band’s fifth studio album, Meds. She continued with them on the 2009 follow-up Battle for the Sun, joined their ensuing world tour on violin, and performed at a semi-acoustic concert held at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. Additional string arrangements and backing vocals from her appear on the group’s 2013 album Loud Like Love; the association ended in 2017.
Throughout these years she kept arranging and orchestrating for a broad range of artists, and by 2015 her clients already encompassed Kanye West, Anna Calvi, John Grant, and Kate Nash. Turning to her own material, Brice issued the mostly instrumental Postcards From on Bella Union in June 2016; each track bears the name of a city or town encountered during her travels. A remix EP titled Postcards Reframed followed. Further contributions went to albums by BNQT, Lost Horizons, Mark Ronson, and Elbow, while original scores were written for the 2019 television series Our Dementia Choir and the 2020 short film White Light. In 2022 she returned to Bella Union with the second solo album And You Know I Care.
Born in Northampton, England, Brice completed degrees at both King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music before her earliest projects took shape. Those included performances with Dream City Film Club on their 1999 album In the Cold Light of the Morning as well as stints alongside the London groups Tram and Jack. While working as a session violinist—appearing on British television alongside Gorillaz, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Sugababes—she also began supplying arrangements for other musicians. Her initial credited work appeared on Michael J. Sheehy’s 2000 solo debut Sweet Blue Gene; around the same period she played on releases by Vashti Bunyan, Tindersticks, and Ed Harcourt.
Brice first collaborated with Placebo in 2005, providing string arrangements for the band’s fifth studio album, Meds. She continued with them on the 2009 follow-up Battle for the Sun, joined their ensuing world tour on violin, and performed at a semi-acoustic concert held at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. Additional string arrangements and backing vocals from her appear on the group’s 2013 album Loud Like Love; the association ended in 2017.
Throughout these years she kept arranging and orchestrating for a broad range of artists, and by 2015 her clients already encompassed Kanye West, Anna Calvi, John Grant, and Kate Nash. Turning to her own material, Brice issued the mostly instrumental Postcards From on Bella Union in June 2016; each track bears the name of a city or town encountered during her travels. A remix EP titled Postcards Reframed followed. Further contributions went to albums by BNQT, Lost Horizons, Mark Ronson, and Elbow, while original scores were written for the 2019 television series Our Dementia Choir and the 2020 short film White Light. In 2022 she returned to Bella Union with the second solo album And You Know I Care.
Albums
Singles
