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HARPSICHORD ALEXANDRA SNYDER DUNBAR

Harpsichordist Alexandra Snyder Dunbar holds degrees from the Juilliard School, Manhattan

School of Music, and Interlochen Arts Academy. She received full scholarship as a resident

in the C.V. Starr Fellows Program as a Doctoral Candidate at Juilliard in the harpsichord

studio of Lionel Party.  Alexandra is a Teaching Assistant and Theory Teaching Fellow at

Juilliard. Other teaching endeavors include the Morse Fellowship Program through Juilliard,

a year-long residency teaching music in New York Public Schools, the GO Project in New

York City, as well as a private studio. Alexandra is an apprentice in the New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist program.

In addition to teaching, Alexandra is also an avid outreach performer, playing with various

ensembles in New York area hospitals and rehabilitation centers as a part of Juilliard's

Gluck Community Service Fellowship program.

Alexandra has collaborated on performance projects with the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra,

The New Juilliard Ensemble, The Juilliard Electric Ensemble, The Tafelmusik Baroque

Orchestra, Bacchanalia Baroque Ensemble, The Dryden Ensemble, the Foundlings Ensemble, and The New York Philharmonic.  Other performances have included such venues as Alice Tully Hall, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Weill Hall and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Hall, as well as in Italy, Austria, and the Czech Republic. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee in a musical family, which continues playing together. Alexandra and her sister Maggie Snyder perform in Allemagnetti, a viola and harpsichord duo. Alexandra has been harpsichordist in the Chamber Orchestra of New York since 2007.