Alexandra Fletcher

Alexandra Fletcher began playing the cello at the age of eight, studying at the New England Conservatory of Music with Laura Blustein and Colin Carr, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Robert Max, Philip Sheppard, and later Mats Lidstrom, She completed postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Adrian Brendel and Tim Lowe, graduating with distinction. Alexandra is a versatile cellist. She particularly enjoys chamber music, and has performed at a variety of venues including the Wigmore Hall. She is an experienced performer of contemporary music, premiering several new works as a soloist and ensemble player, including John McCabe’s Cello Sonata and pieces by Dani Howard and Amy Luyendijk as soloist with the London City Orchestra. She also plays as a freelance orchestral cellist many of London's ensembles and theatre shows, as well as further afield with the Welsh National Opera and the Halle Orchestra. She has a thriving private teaching studio, and coaches privately and on residential courses. Alexandra has won a range of awards all over the UK, and has performed as a soloist with a number of orchestras, recently collaborating with London City Philharmonic and the Canterbury Music Makers. She will be giving the first UK performance of Marie Jaëll’s Cello Concerto, written in 1882, with London City Orchestra later this year.