Alexandra is a graduate of the RCM, where she studied with Martin Gatt, Julie Price and Andrea Di Flammeneis, achieving a Bmus Hons and Pgdip. Throughout her time there she was a scholar and winner of the Fanny Hughes bassoon prize for two consecutive years. Before starting college, Alex was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in which she played principal for two years.
Since leaving college, Alex has embarked on a successful freelance career that sees her playing and travelling extensively. As well as performing in the West End, most notably in the London Palladium’s production of ‘The King and I’, Alex records music for film and tv through session work with ‘Cool Music’, London Metropolitan Orchestra and 101Music Ltd, she has been on trial for the principal bassoon job with RTE National Symphony Orchestra and plays regularly with orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, London Mozart Players, Hallé orchestra, and Bournemouth Symphony orchestra. Alex has enjoyed much of her career playing at some of the country’s most renowned and beautiful opera houses including the Royal Opera House with Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Glyndebourne Opera, Grange park, Holland Park and West Green House.
Alongside her busy playing career, Alex teaches at the Royal College of Music junior department and various schools in Kent. She also enjoys running the Kent franchise of Bach to baby, bringing live music to children from the earliest possible age and dedicates much of her time to chamber music and more specifically her woodwind trio former RCM junior fellows, the Thorne trio. They perform recitals around the country and have also been heavily involved over the years in the education work of the Wigmore hall, Cavatina chamber music trust and the council for Music in hospitals.
Alex has 3 children; Jasper, Rupert and Gemima, who fill up the rest of her time!