Alexandra Carlson, D.M.A.

Alexandra Carlson has performed solo and chamber works throughout Europe, Russia, and the USA.  She won prizes at the London International Piano Competition, the Valentino Bucci International Competition, the Maria Yudina International Piano Competition, and the Hopes, Talents, Master Competition.  The New Horizons Project awarded her a fellowship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  Dr. Carlson’s festival performances include the Atlantic Music Festival, the US-Russia Education Bridge Project Festival, and the Baltic International Piano Duo Festival.  As a soloist, she has performed with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the 5^th Avenue Chamber Orchestra and the Junger Künstler Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.  Dr. Carlson earned her Master of Piano Performance, and Doctorate of Musical Arts, cum laude, from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory.  Recently, she made her conducting debut with Classic Chamber Concerts.  An adjunct professor of music at Ave Maria University, Dr. Carlson lives in Naples, FL.  For more information please visit www.AlexandraCarlson.org