Alison has appeared as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Mississauga, Orchestra London Canada, the Aradia Ensemble and various other orchestras, and has participated in numerous performances of new compositions for Soundstreams and New Music Concerts. She has worked with many celebrated conductors including Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, Andrew Parrott, Frieder Bernius, Hervé Niquet, Andrew Davis and Simon Streatfield, and has shared the soloist's spotlight with Stanley Ritchie, Marion Verbruggen, Niklas Eklund, Elisabeth Wright, Kevin Mallon, Sergei Istomin, Michael McCraw and others. With a strong personal affinity for the traditional music of Scandinavia and Scotland, she is also a member of Ensemble Polaris, who explore this repertoire in new and unusual ways. Their first recording on Dorian, Midnight Sun, was chosen as one of Classic CD Magazine's Discs of the Month in the August 2000 issue.

In September 1999 Alison took upthe position of Assistant Professor of Recorder at the prestigious Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. She also teaches for the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould Professional School, and for early music workshops across North America. She holds an M.Mus. degree from the University of Toronto, and studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis as the winner of various awards from the Canada Council. Alison is also certified as a pract itioner of Zen Shiatsu, and is artistic co-director of the Toronto early chamber music series, Baroque Music Beside the Grange. Her musical inspirations include Tom Waits, Frans Brüggen, Glenn Gould, Billie Holiday, Kathryn Tickell, Scandinavian folk musicians too numerous to mention, and her many colleagues across the globe.