Alexandra Arrieche
Conductor
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][mk_image src=”https://www.cmi-sa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/alexandra-arrieche-720×720.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center” el_class=”employee-main-image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/mk_page_section][mk_page_section padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ sidebar=”mec-single-sidebar”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1563917269458{padding-top: 36px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1565019636931{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Alexandra Arrieche is the Principal Conductor of the Emmy Award winning spectacle “Night of the Proms” and recently appointed Music Director of the Henderson Symphony Orchestra.Alexandra has worked with orchestras in North America, Europe, and Brazil and has received numerous awards for her conducting, including the 2011 Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, founded by Maestra Marin Alsop. As a result, Ms. Arrieche has been assisting Maestra Alsop in São Paulo and Baltimore for the past years working as her Assistant Conductor at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
In 2012, she was invited to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School and in the same year, she won the prestigious BSO – Peabody Conducting Fellowship – that the Baltimore Symphony promotes in partnership with the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University for young talented conductors. Alexandra´s work was so impressive that the BSO decided to extend her contract for an additional season offering her the position of Assistant Conductor.
In 2007, Alexandra won the São Paulo State University Orchestra (OSUSP) Conducting Competition and became the assistant conductor of one of Brazil’s finest orchestras. In the following year, she attended the Festival Villa-Lobos also as assistant conductor and music advisor. As a result of her work she was invited to conduct a series of concerts with the main orchestra. She was also responsible for the very successful Family Concert Series. Motivated by the lack of opportunities for young Brazilian conductors to work with native orchestras, Ms. Arrieche created a series of conducting workshops in Brazil in 2009-2010. While in São Paulo, she conducted local youth orchestras modeled off the Venezuelan El Sistema program.
Alexandra began her musical studies as a vocalist before dedicating her career to conducting and composition. In 1997, she was invited to study with the renowned composer Cristobal Halffter in his Laboratory for Young Composers in Spain. In 2010, she was offered a full scholarship to Maestro Harold Farberman’s Master Conducting Studio at Bard College and in 2013 she completed her Arts Diploma in Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.In addition to her studies, Ms. Arrieche has conducted master classes with Kurt Masur, Johannes Schlaefli, Cliff Colnot, Apo Hsu, Hugh Wolf, George Manahan, Robert Spano and Bernard Haitink.
Ms. Arrieche has guest conducted the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, São Paulo State University Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de Mexico, Antwerp Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In addition to these groups, she has also worked with the Colorado Symphony, Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.[/vc_column_text][mk_button dimension=”flat” size=”medium” url=”/cmitest/about#artists” align=”center” bg_color=”#009ca6″ btn_hover_bg=”#091f40″ btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]RETURN TO ARTISTS[/mk_button][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/mk_page_section]
