“Another good experience was hearing violinist Alexandra Wood at Wigmore Hall on March 26. In this Young Artists’ Platform award-winners concert Wood followed the clear-voiced Canadian soprano Gillian Keith and the expressive oboist Katy Mackintosh, both well accompanied by Simon Lepper, but she quickly asserted her authority. I was almost persuaded that Hugh Wood’s dreary Poem was a superb lyrical effusion. Even better was Debussy’s Sonata, in which Wood and pianist Huw Watkins were able to be spontaneous without losing control or stylistic unity. She enjoyed her Wieniawski Polonaise Brillante and so did we….She is certainly a talent to watch. An encore was clearly desired by the audience but perhaps it would have been unfair to the earlier participants”
Tully Potter, The Strad

“The PLG was giving a second showing to Watkins’s 1999 Sonata. This passionately lyrical and skilfully argued work was played this year by Watkins and the 24-year-old violinist Alexandra Wood.Her highly charged yet imaginatively refined playing had already set into bright relief the Three studies by David Matthews. And she and Watkins had made Daniel Giorgetti’s Dialogue 2000 leap from the page. This world-premier performance exploited the extremes of both violin and piano, but to witty rather than sensational effect, demanding quite extraordinary physical and imaginative dexterity from the players.”
Hilary Finch, The Times