Alexandra Tsilibes

Alexandra Tsilibes, Section Violin in the FWPhil since 2000, comes from Rochester, N.Y. She began playing at age 5 and gave her solo debut with the Rochester Philharmonic at 16. Alex went on to earn a Bachelor of Music with High Honors from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music from Stony Brook University. She also minored in Spanish at the University of Rochester and has an orchestral studies certificate from Wayne State, plus a pharmacy technician certificate from Ivy Tech. Alex has been a member of the Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Flint and South Bend Symphonies and has participated in numerous festivals, including in Aspen, CO, Heidelberg, Germany, and Spoleto, Italy and at Des Moines Metro Opera. She has performed with the Indianapolis and Carmel Symphonies and under the late Sir Georg Solti and Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall. She and her husband, Akira Murotani, Third Trumpet with FWPhil, have a daughter, Elizabeth. Besides being a private violin instructor, Tsilibes enjoys cooking and traveling.