Violin Rendezvous

Alexa Beattie

Scottish violist Beattie holds the prestigious Artist's Certificate in Chamber Music (2009) from San Francisco Conservatory where she studied with Paul Hersh and Jodi Levitz. She gained her Undergraduate and Masters degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London studying with James Boyd and Tim Boulton. Whilst in London she was a recipient of the City of London's Chartered Surveyors String Quartet Prize and as a Jerwood Scholar attended IMS Prussia Cove.

Alexa has taught Graduate and Doctoral level students atthe Universities of Wisconsin and California in New Music Residencies. Further experience has included chamber music teaching for San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. Alexa's experience with young string players has included outreach work in London and California and Adjudication for the Etude String competition. She was a workshop leadership apprentice with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has worked with parents and children as young as 2 years old in the Wigmore Hall 'Chamber Tots' programme.

Alexa has maintained a private studio throughout a number of years living in London, Canada and the USA, working with beginners at every age through to professional level interpreters. More recently Alexa has become Co-director of Festival Viana in Portugal which involves high-level chamber music instruction. She is on the viola and violin faculty at Phorms Bi-lingual School in Munich and is recently part of the instrumental faculty at Munich Internation School.