Meet The Team

Alexandria Ott

Violinist

Alexandria Ott currently studies at the University of Michigan with Aaron Berofsky.  She is pursuing a double degree in chamber music as well as solo performance while playing with the Ann Arbor, Flint, and Lansing Symphonies.  She completed her undergraduate at the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Reneé Jolles and served as concertmaster of the Eastman Philharmonia and School Symphony Orchestra.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude and with a performer's certificate in Historical Performance Practice. 

A passionate chamber musician, Alexandria has performed for Eastman Honors Chamber Music, the Rochester Early Music Festival, the Eastman Saturday Morning Chamber Music series, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra special series, and the Faculty Series at Eastman. In 2019, she was one of sixteen musicians selected to take part in the String Quartet Seminar at Music Academy of the West where she worked intensively with the world-famous Takacs Quartet.  She has also worked with the Danish, Shanghai, and Ying Quartets.  She is a founding member of the Kenaniah Project, an eclectic folk, jazz, and classical fusion band that performs classic repertoire, unique arrangements, and originals from a blend of musical genres.  

Additional opportunities have included the National Orchestral Institute, where she was awarded the string leadership scholarship, the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra, where she has served as both Concertmaster and Principal Second, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Masterworks Festival.  She has won a number of competitions including the Cordancia Concerto Competition and Rochester Philharmonic League’s Ruth and Sidney Salzman Prize for Strings.  She is grateful for additional study with Ida Kavafian, Kathy Winkler, Jorja Fleezanis, Carmine Lauri, Kathryn Votapek, Juliana Athayde, and Rachel Barton Pine.  Her first violin teacher, and the mentor she owes the most to, is Shannon Nance of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.