Alexandra is currently studying at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she is trained by Professor Ida Kavafian.
Alexandra Cooreman (2003) started playing the violin at the age of 5 and already performed on the stage at the age of 6.
As an exceptional young talent, she was admitted in 2013 to the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, where she studied with Augustin Dumay and Tatiana Samouil. Alexandra continued her musical education at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in
Madrid with Anna Chumachenco and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Michaela Martin.
The Belgian-Polish violinist has won first prizes in many competitions as the Kocian Violin Competition, the Breughel Competition and the Grumiaux International Competition. From a very young age, Alexandra has played solo with various orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the European Philharmonia and the Flemish Chamber Philharmonic. In addition, she has followed masterclasses with world-famous musicians such as Augustin Dumay, Yuri Bashmet, Giuliano Carmignola, Pavel Vernikov, Jean-Claude Vanden Eyden, Michaela Martin, Catherine Cho, Hye-Jin Kim, Ida Kavafian and Ani Kavafian…
In 2014, Alexandra played at the Christmas concert in the Royal Palace in Brussels. She also took part in the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Edinburgh in 2018, where she represented Belgium. Together with Renaud Capuçon she performed Bach’s double concerto at Flagey, accompanied by the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia conducted by Frank Braley. In 2022, she was invited by Renaud Capuçon to perform a recital at his festival ‘Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad’ with pianist Kojiro Okada.
This last summer 2023, she performed 5 times Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso with the Flanders Festival Orchestra conducted by Dirk. This year, she received the special prize for the best interpretation of Tigran Mansurian’s “Lamento” piece at the Khachaturian International Competition.
The violinist has a modern violin (2017), built by Charles Coquet, on loan from El Pasito.