Alexandra Eddy
Dr.
Alexandra Eddy, concertmaster of the Longmont Symphony and member of
the violin and viola faculty at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical
Arts, maintains a private modern violin and Baroque violin studio in
Boulder, is a faculty member in the Humanities Department of the
University of Colorado, and has served on the music history faculties of
the University of Colorado and of Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
She performed full time from 1991-1997 as a free-lance modern and Baroque
violinist in Washington, D.C.-area professional ensembles, including the
Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Washington Concert Opera, and
the Washington Chamber Symphony. She continues to perform and record in
Washington D.C. with the Violins of Lafayette and Opera Lafayette, a
period-instrument ensemble whose most recent full-scale project was a
recording of Gluck's opera Orphée et Euridice (to be released
commercially in 2003). With Mark Carson, percussionist for the Air
Force Concert Band in Washington, D.C., Alexandra Eddy recently
commissioned and premiered Richard Toensing's Haloes for violin and
percussion. She has been concertmaster of the Longmont Symphony
since 2000, and has performed with the Boulder Philharmonic and the
Colorado Sinfonia. In November 2001, she and cellist Charles Tucker
presented a duo recital of Baroque music on period instruments on the
Estes Park Music Festival series. In March 2002, Alexandra Eddy
appeared as guest violist with Red Cedar Chamber Music in a concert
sponsored by Early Music Colorado, and in April 2003 she and Mr. Tucker
will present a chamber concert with Frank Nowell, harpsichordist, as part
of the Denver Handel Festival, also sponsored by Early Music
Colorado. Alexandra Eddy holds the B.A. in music with highest honors
from the University of Colorado and the Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford
University. Her publications include The Western Musical
Imagination, a music letter published four times a year; The Rost
Manuscript of Seventeenth-Century Chamber Music: a Thematic Catalog
(Harmonie Park Press, 1989); and "American Violin Method-Books and
European Teachers, Geminiani to Spohr," (American Music,
1990).
