 Alexa is known internationally for her many recordings on the Koch International Classics label, mostly specializing in early twentieth century repertoire. She has been described as: "impeccable in technique and taste, seductive in phrasing" (Stephensen Classical C D Guide). "Still plays... so convincingly I cannot separate her from the music" (American Record Guide), "whatever she plays sounds musical in every turn of the phrase" (Gramophone), "a stunning showcase for the astonishing Alexa Still" (Fanfare).
A native of New Zealand, Alexa is currently the Associate Professor of Flute at University of Colorado at Boulder.
Prior to this appointment she was principal flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for 11 years. Described as "a National Treasure" (Daily News) in her home country, she made regular tours to the US for solo engagements and, in 1996, a Fulbright Award.
Alexa won the NZSO position at the age of 23. Prior to that, she was a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook studying with Samuel Baron and also independently with Thomas Nyfenger, gaining a Masters and Doctorate degrees and numerous competition successes.
Recent performances included recitals, concertos and classes in England, Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Mexico, Canada and across the United States. She gave the Southern Hemisphere premiere of John Corigliano's Pied Piper Fantasy with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and has also performed it with the South Arkansas Symphony and the Long Island Philharmonic. Her 10th solo compact disc, music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, was recently released.
Alexa was a featured soloist at the National Flute Association conventions in Chicago and Atlanta and was recently elected to the serve on the NFA's Board of Directors. She plays a silver flute made for her by Brannen Brothers of Boston with head joints by Sanford Drelinger of White Plains, New York.
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Myers International Ltd.
1238 Puritan Ave.
Westchester, NY 10461-6153
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"This listener found himself so involved in the music at hand that the artist's technical sureness and musical intensity were noticed only in retrospect"
New York Times
"her playing matched her impressive stature... Alexa's ability to whisper or shout with her instrument as she needed made her performance very, very, special."
Peninsula News, L.A.
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Muczynski Sonata
Barber: Canzone
Burton: Sonatina
Porter: Lontains
Rochberg: Between Two Worlds
Muczynski: Sonata
Bloch: Last Two Poems
Alexa Still, flute
Susan Dewitt Smith, piano
KOCH 3-7144-2 H1 |
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Ernest Bloch - Life Again?
Bloch: Trois Poèms Juifs
Bloch: Two Last Poems...(Maybe...)
Bloch: Evocations
Alexa Still, flute
New Zealand Symphony, James Sedares
conductor
KOCH 3-7232-2 H1 |
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Jacob Concerto
Jacob: Concerto for Flute
and Strings Orchestra
Arnold: Flute Concerto No.2
Musgrave: Orfeo II, An
improvisation on a theme
Alexa Still, flute
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas
Braithwaite conductor
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