“ People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” - Michael Jackson

Alise Ashby is a British pianist, composer & songwriter based in New England. Her fans know her for her moving melodies as the music transcends the listener into a serene world of their own creation. 

Her multi-instrumental work has been featured in commercials and film, including at The Cannes Film Festival, and on Sirius XM. Her Diamonds EP won Akademia Music's Best Ambient Instrumental Award for 2019.

Alise's latest release is, "The Gift" EP - (New Age) co-written and recorded with cellist and friend Kristen Miller - Released on  Heart Dance Records -In March 2024,

UPCOMING RELEASE - July 5th 2024  also on the Heart Dance label - ‘Stardust’ EP - a collection of 7 soothing, relaxing and healing piano instrumentals. 

Alise Ashby is an award-winning British Composer & Songwriter. Alise began her classical musical training as a child studying piano. At age eight she began to write her own music. She was constantly inspired by both musical theatre and the mix of classical and pop music that resounded in her home. Throughout her education, she acted and wrote original music for high school productions.

At the age of 16, Alise was commissioned to write her first film score, for a 90 minute feature presented it The Cannes Film Festival.

Whilst living in London, and studying part time at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, she began spending hours in the recording studio as she honed songs.

At age 18 she wrote a Christmas song, recorded by the choir of a private school in central London, and donated to patients at hospitals who could not be at home for the holidays.

Always having an adventurous spirit, in 1988, Alise made a trip to New York and LA to travel and to shop around early recordings. She fell in love with the aliveness and possibilities of New York. Encouraged by the response from those who heard her music, just a month shy of her 21st birthday, she followed her heart and crossed the pond with two suitcases and a dream. Living in Spanish Harlem, she spent hot summer nights listening to all the live music played on the doorsteps of apartment buildings, making friends with the locals, who kept an eye out for her.

Whilst living in New York, Alise studied orchestration with a Juilliard Professor and wrote for a handful of Commercials. The creation of new material was ongoing.

After moving to Boston, in 1999 Alise wrote what became her first album, Moonlight in Vermont - a collection of New Age instrumentals with NewSound Music in Vermont. The bestselling track, A Place Called Paradise played on Sirius XM Spa for 15 years!

Amidst life’s twists and turns, joys and tears, life took her on the path of motherhood, which became single motherhood. Dedicated to making the raising of her daughter the priority, as encouraged by the late producer Jake Eberts and his wife atop the mountain restaurant at Redford’s Sundance Resort, Alise simultaneously built a library of songs and instrumentals in a variety of genres.

Her potential seen by others to be a natural teacher, as a way to remain connected to her passion and make a living, The Inside Music Program was born and is now an international program - Designed to create an incremental path of learning through Improvisation, The Inside Music Program is a creative platform that guides the student (both children and adults) to listen, feel and express freely by letting go of limitations in thoughts and beliefs, so they may blossom into their full potential through music and in life.

In 2016, Alise released an orchestral cinematic album, Far & Beyond which was followed by a New Age/Jazz influenced EP, entitled Diamonds later the same year, that won an award. From 2018-2019, she released a single a month. The first 11 became Jazz Singles Collection 1. As a way to address the world’s disparity and desperate need to unite, Alise released the single pop song, Gotta Learn To Love in July 2020. And in response to the enormity of loss felt by millions during the pandemic, in December 2020, Alise released the pop ballad, I Will Carry You.

Thanks to a number of beautiful synchronicities, Alise’s music is the soundtrack to her husband Manny’s (manueljosemuros.com) meditations, workshops and spiritual retreats.

From life’s experience, one lesson Alise has learned is that life never unfolds the way you think or will it to, and by learning to surrender and allow the current of life to carry you is when the magic appears.

To top it off, now with a musical in the works, Alise feels she is just getting started.

Ever grateful for all those who support her work and life purpose.