Alexandra Wood, "a talent to watch" (The Strad), has won major prizes at international violin competitions including Wieniawski, Tibor Varga and Yampolsky.

She has given recitals for numerous international festivals including Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Bath and Brighton, and also in London at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall.

She has performed concertos with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra of St Johns Smith Square, working with conductors including Richard Hickox and Roger Norrington. Alexandra has won many prestigious awards including the Worshipful Company of Musicians Medal, Maisie Lewis Award, Wingate Scholarship and Junior Fellowships at the Royal College of Music.

She was selected for the Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform, and was an NFMS Recommended Artist. Her CD of world premiere recordings -“Chimera”- was described as “splendid” in The Sunday Times, and in BBC Music Magazine as “agile, incisive and impassioned”.

She is Associate Professor of Violin at Leeds College of Music, and also teaches at Birmingham Conservatoire.