Julia Alexander has been studying the violin since the age of five, first with Julian Meyer of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and presently with Sylvia Ahramjian of Wilmington, DE. She is a member of the Youth Chamber Orchestra of Temple University Center for Gifted young Musicians at Temple University, Philadelphia, under the musical direction of Maestro Luis Viava, and a former member of the Baroque Players, under the direction of Davyd Booth. She has participated for the past three summers in the Chamber Music Workshop at the Wilmington Music School, Wilmington, DE. She was a finalist in the Pottstown Symphony Concerto Competition, Pottstown, PA in 2001 and received an Honorable Mention at the Manalapan Battle Ground Symphony Concerto Competition in 2000. She is concertmaster and frequent soloist with the Germantown Friends School Orchestra, in Philadelphia, where she is a graduating senior. She is also very active in the choir at her high school, serving as soprano section leader and soloist. In 2001 she was selected by audition to participate in the American Choral Directors Association National Multicultural Honor Choir in San Antonio, Texas. During the summer of 2000, she studied chamber music at the Institute for British Cultural Studies, sponsored by West Chester University in Oxford England, where she was co-concertmaster of the West Chester University Chamber Ochestra, and gave concerts both in Oxford and London. This past summer she participated in violin master classes and performances at the International Music Festival in Brasov, Romania.
