About Alexandra
Alexandra Doyle grew up in Houston, Texas, where she began playing the clarinet in sixth grade. After years of Texas band, she attended the University of Houston, earning bachelor’s degrees in clarinet performance and print journalism, as well as a minor in Creative Works through the UH Honors College. She moved to Cincinnati to earn her master’s degree in clarinet performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2022.
As a performer, Alexandra most enjoys playing orchestral repertoire, opera, and chamber music. She is a member of the Taneycomo Festival Orchestra, where she serves as the festival’s marketing director, as well as the New Liberty Dance Orchestra. Alexandra has also performed with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Lima Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of Southeast Texas, Galveston Symphony, and many others.
Alexandra adores teaching and has worked with students from six-year-old beginners to blossoming young artists. She is on the faculty of Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio, Thomas More University in northern Kentucky and the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton. She teaches clarinet lessons and academic music courses, as well as directing the TMU Chamber Winds.
Alexandra is an active musicologist, with a chapter on women wind instrumentalists due to be published in Oxford’s The Wind Music Companion later this year. She will have her debut byline in The Clarinet magazine in June 2024 with “Breaking the Glass Clarinet: Repertoire Contributions by Joan Tower and Libby Larsen.” Alexandra will also give both a solo performance and a lecture at Clarinetfest 2024 in Dublin, Ireland.
Alexandra Doyle is a Vandoren Artist-Clinician.