Alexie Koh, 13 years old, is an eighth grade student at The Crowden School in Berkeley, California. She started playing the violin at age three under the tutelage of the late Sue Mann. As a member of Magical Strings West, she traveled to Europe in the summer of 2017 and performed in Cremona, Venice, Salzburg, and Vienna. In June 2018, she performed with Betty Haag Academy’s Magical Strings of Youth and Escola de Música do Colégio Moderno of Portugal in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. From 2021 through 2023, she was a member of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.
Her competition prizes include Second Prize in the GCC Rising Talents of Americas (5th edition 2021), Third Prize in the GCC Best Wieniawski Performance (5th edition 2021), First Place in the American Protégé International Music Talent Competition Fall 2021, Third Prize in the BTHVN Wien Music Competition in October 2022, and Second Prize in the Birmingham International Music Competition in December 2022, and Second Prize in the GCC Best Bach Performance (8th Edition, 2024). She made her Carnegie Hall debut in November, 2022 and performed Sarasate's Introduction and Tarantelle.
She currently studies under Iskandar Widjaja from Berlin and Amy Beth Horman at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: IV. Allegro assai, Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 min 33 sec
Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21, V. Rondo: Allegro, Édouard Lalo, 8 min 4 sec
