Alastair White is a Scottish composer and writer. Recipient of a Tait Memorial Trust Award, and shortlisted twice for a Scottish Award for New Music (in 2019 and 2020) a Creative Edinburgh Award (2019), an Ivan Juritz Prize (2023) and The Stage Awards (2024), his music and writing has been described as "a whole exciting new genre of art" (BBC Radio 3) "perfect" (Vogue Italia), "ambitious, iconoclastic" (The Stage) and an attempt "to challenge long-held assumptions about the material world and to illuminate the performative nature of matter itself" (Opera Today). His scores and libretti are published by United Music Publishing and he has released three full-length albums on Métier Records; his poetry has appeared in journals such as Lallans, Pomegranate and DIN, and been featured at festivals such as STanza. Composer-in-residence for the the Ljubljana-based .abeceda [new music ensemble], he teaches music at the University of Surrey and holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London.