Violinist
Calvin Alexander
About
Violinist Calvin Alexander is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as one of twenty-four juniors in his class and served as Concertmaster of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Assistant Music Director of the Harvard College Opera. He is also pursuing a Master of Music with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory on a full-tuition scholarship, where his quartet performed in Jordan Hall as an Honors Ensemble.
A top-prize winner of the Tibor Varga Junior, Cooper, and YoungArts competitions, Alexander has appeared as soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Korean Chamber Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Sion Festival Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Longview Symphony Orchestra, Marshall Symphony Orchestra, and Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Perlman Music Program, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Nume Festival, where he collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, David Shifrin, and members of the Juilliard and Parker Quartets. He performed with the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry in 2026 and will join the Boston Chamber Music Society as a guest artist in the 2026–2027 season. His mentors include Catherine Cho, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman, Jan Sloman, Mai Motobuchi, and the Brentano Quartet, whose influence he brings into his work with Harvard’s HARMONY Mentoring program, a non-profit that provides free musical education to over 100 low-income students in Cambridge.
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