Alison Plante

Alison Plante is previous chair and current professor of Screen Scoring at Berklee College of Music, and program director for the Berklee Online Master of Music in Film Scoring. She plays keyboard and wind instruments and sings, performed in an Indonesian-style Gamelan for three years, and has conducted
both orchestra and choir. Her composition honors include the Janet Gates Peckham International Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for an original literary or musical work.

Her scoring credits include documentary films, educational television series, History Channel and PBS specials, national TV spots, trailers, corporate identity music, live action and animated shorts, theater (with a specialty in puppetry), and multimedia museum installations for the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Natural History.