Alexa Rose Sanfilippo is a performer, and a violin and viola teacher in the Raleigh area. She currently performs regularly with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, the Tar River Orchestra, and local Americana band Chill E Mammoth. She also teaches with the Raleigh Music Collective, and in the past has taught as a teaching artist for Kidznotes.
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. She has had the opportunity to perform with orchestras in multiple cities in Greece, as well as at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in Germany. She has also performed solos at Trinity College in Cambridge, UK.
Before moving to the Raleigh area in 2019, she performed and taught in Houston, TX for seven years. Her 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 offers free private lessons to elementary students in need. She has taught private violin and viola lessons to students of all ages since 2012. She performed with multiple area country and bluegrass bands, both in the studio and on tour.
In her free time she enjoys being outdoors, spending time with her two sons, and experimenting with fiddle music.
