Welcome!
Composer Alexandra Gardner creates music and sonic art with a clear, expressive sound and a flair for the imaginative and unexpected.
… few [contemporary composers] achieve the particular alchemy of craft, whimsy, and sensual appeal that the Baltimore-based composer Gardner consistently produces.
— The New Yorker
listen / watch
Musicians of the Seattle Symphony perform the opening movement of Alexandra’s string quartet Coyote Turns in the Octave 9 performance space.
Pianist Natalia Kazaryan performs Hummingbird Dreams.
Flutist Megan Shanley Alger plays Fade.
Foreign Exchange by animator Corrie Francis Parks features Tourmaline.
upcoming events
March 2, 2023 — 3:00 p.m. PST
Blue John — solo double bass
Including works by Brochocka, Weinberg, and Davis
Scott Worthington
Cal State University
Los Angeles, CA
March 3, 2023
The Way of Ideas — flute, clarinet, violin, cello
Including works by Holland, Poulenc, and Woolf
Radius Ensemble
Boston, MA
coaching / lessons / workshops
Alexandra works with composers from 13 to 113 and emerging to elite to jump-start their creative practices and navigate the fast-changing musical world.
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