Alexandra Simpson, San Domenico's Virtuoso Program Music Director, has built an eclectic career that runs the gamut from intimate chamber music concerts to stadium tours with superstar pop acts. She plays in a number of orchestras and serves as Acting Principal Violist Fresno Philharmonic and Assistant Principal at California Symphony. She currently holds the Interim Music Director position at San Domenico School’s Virtuoso Program. She studied with Kim Kashkashian at New England Conservatory, Ettore Causa at Yale School of Music, and Dmitri Murrath at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She also has performed with a number of pop acts, including Sabrina Carpenter, Kygo, Sigur Ros, Andrea Bocelli, and Michael Bublé.

Alexandra has appeared as a soloist with Sacramento's Camellia Symphony Orchestra, Marin Symphony, SFCM New Music Ensemble, and Classical Music Institute Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Alexandra travels frequently to festivals to perform, learn, and teach. Alexandra has participated in the Prussia Cove International Musicians’ Seminar, Kneisel Hall, Glenn Douglas Memorial Chamber Festival, Bard Music Colombia, Musikiwest Chamberfest in Pebble Beach, and Classical Music Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

 

As an orchestra musician, she subs with San Francisco Symphony, SFBallet and SFOPERA, and has served as a guest Principal Violist for the Orchestra San Antonio, OPERA San Antonio, and a number of Bay Area Orchestras.

 

Alexandra performs regularly around the Bay Area, and has given chamber music concerts at Berkeley Piano Club, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Strings in Emeryville, and with Benicia Chamber Players.  She performed alongside Sabrina Carpenter for her NPR Tiny Desk, and accompanied international superstar DJ Kygo at the closing act of Outside Lands in 2019, and in 2022 at BottleRock in Napa. She has appeared in music videos and documentaries for ZHU, Chuck Prophet and Mercury Soul, and was interviewed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's for his 2020 Build Conference keynote, as well as advertisements for Microsoft Teams.