Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Alexandra grew up and commenced her musical and piano studies in Jerusalem, Israel, later emigrating with her family to Melbourne, Australia. An Honours graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), Alexandra has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, notably the Queen’s Trust for Young Australians Award, The Australian Singing Competition comprising the Marianne Mathy and Joan Sutherland Awards, Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award (Vocal Category), the Mietta Song Recital Award and The Countess of Münster Star Award (London). These scholarships enabled Alexandra to complete postgraduate studies and Opera School at the Royal College of Music, London. She has studied with Christa Ludwig, Deborah Polaski, Sir Richard Bonynge and Franco Pagliazzi among others.
An experienced concert and oratorio singer, Alexandra has performed extensively throughout Europe and the UK, Australia, China and South Korea with such conductors as the late Christopher Hogwood, Alexander Shelley, Gianandrea Noseda and Gustav Kuhn and orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music and the Northern Sinfonia. Alexandra has appeared in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, as part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. Her extensive oratorio and recital repertoire spans from the Baroque to the contemporary, from Bach to Boulez with such repertoire as Mahler 2nd Symphony and Songs of a Wayfarer, Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été, Elgar Sea Pictures, Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, de Falla El Amor Brujo, Meldelssohn Elijah, Verdi Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Bach St. John and St. Matthew Passions, Christmas Oratorio.
In opera, Alexandra has had principal roles with such companies as Théâtre du Châtelet (John Adams Nixon in China – ARTE Broadcast), Opera Australia, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North in the UK, as well as at Garsington, Opera Holland Park and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and for festivals including the London Handel Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Melbourne International Music Festival, Thüringer Schlossfestspiele and Tiroler Festspiele. Her principal roles to date include Guido (Handel, Flavio) and Irene (Tamerlano), Juno/Ino (Semele), Hippolyta (Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Malcolm (Rossini, La Donna del Lago), Bradamante and Orlando (Handel, Alcina; Orlando), Olga (Eugene Onegin) and Pauline (Queen of Spades), Erda (Wagner, Siegfried; Das Rheingold).
Alexandra’s discography includes Handel’s Messiah (ABC Classics, cond. Anthony Walker); Offenbach Entre Nous (Opera Rara, cond. David Parry), Shostakovich (First Hand Records; S. Rozhdestvensky/J. Menuhin).
Alexandra has given many masterclasses throughout China, South Korea, Germany, Austria and Australia, including at the Xinxiang University, Seoul University and Melba Opera Trust to great acclaim.
Since 2017 Alexandra has been teaching at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in Berlin and specializes in intensive preparation of students for further study at European Conservatoires. Her students have been accepted into Master and Opera Studios throughout Europe including the UDK Berlin, Mannheim, Graz, Budapest and Warsaw among others.
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