| Alexa Beattie Artist's Website >> Alexa Beattie (originally from Scotland) has recently graduated with Honors from the Artist’s Certificate in Chamber Music Program at San Francisco Conservatory, where she studied with Paul Hersh and Jodi Levitz. As a soloist, Beattie has appeared with Glasgow’s Kelvin Ensemble, in the Festival of British Youth Orchestras and with new music ensembles Symposia (Glasgow) and sfSoundGroup, of which she is a core member. Beattie is also a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area’s One Art Ensemble (soprano, viola and piano trio) with whom she has appeared in San Francisco’s Noontime Concert Series, the Bing Concert series at Stanford and has recently returned from a tour of North Washington State. She is a recipient of the City of London’s Chartered Surveyors String Quartet Prize and as a Jerwood Scholar has attended the International Musicians’ Seminar Masterclasses at Prussia Cove. With diverse repertoire and expertise, Beattie’s deeply influential and inspiring collaborative partners have included Bonnie Hampton, Robert Mann, Ian Swensen, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Hersh, and Canada’s slam poetry champion Shane Koyczan. She gained her Undergraduate and Masters degrees in Performance from the Guidhall School of Music and Drama in London, and is indebted to the Dewar Arts Awards, the Scottish International Educational Trust, the Oldhurst Trust, the Hope Scott Trust, the Stella Moffat Charitable Trust and the St Andrew’s Society of Washington DC for support throughout her studies. O1C Performances: One Art Ensemble sfSound |
