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Biography
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Alexandra Aguirre has performed all over the world as a soloist, a chamber musician, and as an orchestral musician. She is a founding member of Madera Winds and the Ambrosia Flute Trio and has appeared at the Festivales Internacionales de Flautistas in Peru, UTRGV’s Flute Day, the National Flute Association Conventions, Colorado Flute Association, Oklahoma Flute Society’s Flute Fairs, International Clarinet Association Convention, the World Saxophone Congress in France, the International Saxophone Symposium, Oklahoma State University Saxophone Summit, and the North American Saxophone Alliance National and Regional Conferences.
As an active pedagogue, she developed an innovative technique using the Nintendo Wii to monitor body movement while playing the flute. She has also judged competitions and taught masterclasses in Peru, New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, New York, Colorado, and Oklahoma.
She won the 2021 NFA Graduate Research Competition and received the Graduate Dean’s Citation for Outstanding Research for her dissertation “Finding Messiaen’s blackbird; an investigative analysis of birdsong and other techniques used in Le merle noir.”
She is currently an adjunct instructor in the Department of Performing Arts and the Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. She received her Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Colorado, and her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music from New York University.
