Alexa Rose Sanfilippo is a performer, and a violin and viola teacher. She began the violin at her elementary school in New Hampshire at the age of nine. She participated in youth orchestras at the New England Conservatory as part of their Preparatory Program, as well as studied with various teachers there. She received her undergraduate degree in Music from Syracuse University, and her Masters in Violin Performance from the University of Houston. She has studied with Dr. Kirsten Yon, Dr. Peter Rovit, Antoine van Dongen, Jenny Stirling, the late Mimi Bravar, and Michelle Cronin.

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In the Raleigh area, she has taught with Kidznotes as a Violin teacher and Orchestra Conductor.  She is currently teaching with the Raleigh Music Collective as a Violin and Viola Teacher in both private and group settings. She also offers private violin and viola lessons in her home.  She is currently performing with a Folk Rock band called Chill E Mammoth in the Raleigh area. She is in the first violin section of the Raleigh Symphony. She has also played with the Durham Symphony and the Tar River Orchestra. 

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Before moving to the Raleigh area in 2019, she performed and taught in Houston, TX for seven years. She taught private lessons at local schools, as well a region clinics, Her other teaching experience includes the Coda program (part of Houston Youth Symphony), which is an El Sistema based program that focuses on group lessons and orchestra. She also taught for the Melody program through Houston Youth Symphony, which offered free private lessons to elementary students who otherwise would not have had the opportunity. She has taught private violin and viola lessons to students of all ages since 2012.  

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Notable performances include: a solo performance at the 2018 TEDx event in Sugar Land, TX; a 2014 performance with the Academic Orchestra of Leipzig and members of the University of Houston Orchestra at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in Germany; solo performances at Trinity College in Cambridge, UK as a part of the Cambridge International String Academy in 2013; a solo performance with Syracuse University’s Samba Laranja at Jazz at Lincoln Center in  New York in 2012; a solo performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the age of 17 with the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic in the Boston, MA area; and a solo debut at age 14 with the Granite State Symphony in New Hampshire.  While living in Houston, TX she toured the state with the Texas Country band Bubba Westly and Interstate Heartbreak.  She also played regular shows with The Recollection, a Texas country and bluegrass band based in Houston. She has recorded with country artists in Texas, and has done some other studio work as well.