A native of New Zealand, Alexa’s first visit to the US was for graduate study at the State University of New York at Stony Brook studying with Samuel Baron and also independently with Thomas Nyfenger, gaining a Masters and Doctorate degrees and numerous competition successes. Alexa then won principal flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the age of 23, and returned home for 11 years. Described as “a National Treasure" (Daily News) in New Zealand, she made regular tours to the US for solo engagements and, in 1996, a Fulbright Award.

Since being appointed Associate Professor of Flute at University of Colorado at Boulder (1998) she has presented recitals, concertos and master classes in England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Mexico, Canada, Korea, Turkey and across the United States. She gave the Southern Hemisphere premiere of John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and has also performed it with the South Arkansas Symphony and the Long Island Philharmonic. Her 12th solo compact disc on Koch (the chamber music for flute by Lowell Liebermann) was released in July 2003 and she recorded another concerto disc in January of 2003.

Alexa was a featured soloist at the National Flute Association conventions in Chicago, Atlanta and Washington D.C. She was program chair for the 31st National Flute Association Convention in 2003. She plays a silver flute made for her by Brannen Brothers of Boston with gold or wooden head joints by Sanford Drelinger of White Plains, New York.

"This listener found himself so involved in the music at hand that the artist's technical sureness and musical intensity were noticed only in retrospect" New York Times

"her playing matched her impressive stature... Alexa's ability to whisper or shout with her instrument as she needed made her performance very, very, special." Peninsula News, L.A.

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