Biography

International award-winning pianist Alexandria Le is has won over audiences worldwide as “...a warm, animated, outgoing, confident, hypertalented pianist whose greatest asset is her ability to communicate” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Her multifaceted career brings her dynamic presence to the world’s most illustrious concert stages, like NYC’s Carnegie Hall and Paris’ Salle Cortot, to the furthest-reaching places where music is needed most, like the jails of Rikers Island. 

A winner of over twenty first-prize music awards, Le is a laureate of the 2011 Pro Musicis International Award. As a Pro Musicis artist, she gave her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2012 and was further presented outside concert halls to communities in need, further spurring her interest in arts advocacy. In 2012, she won a fellowship position with Ensemble Connect—the Academy of Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. Over the span of two years, she performed regularly at Carnegie Hall and other established venues while broadening her work as a teaching artist; in two years, she performed over 80 outreach concerts across New York City’s schools, hospitals, incarceration facilities, and assisted living facilities.

A first-prize winner of the Ackerman Chamber Music Competition juried by the Emerson String Quartet, Le is an established collaborator and chamber musician. She has performed with principal players of the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles such as Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, American Brass, and Canadian Brass, in addition to some of the world’s most renowned artists, such as pianist Byron Janis, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, and tubist Øystein Baadsvik. Additionally, she has held multiple collaborative piano positions at the Banff Centre of the Arts. Her playing appears on Centaur Records with flutist Suzanne Snizek. 

Her breadth of involvement in keyboard playing includes performing in early (Baroque) ensembles led by Harry Bicket, to contemporary music ensembles working closely with Susanna Mälkki, John Corigliano, Steve Reich, Andy Akiho, Paul Wiancko, and Caroline Shaw, among many others. As a founding member of the NYC-based ensemble, The Colonials, she took part in commissioning and performing new works, including a reworking of Schubert’s chamber masterpiece, the “Trout” Quintet, by commissioning six new variations from six composers. She continues to perform new works and is on the artist roster for SoundScore, a global community connecting top-tier performers and composers. During the pandemic, Le took the time to explore further creative avenues; she co-composed music for a historic laser show on the Hoover Dam in 2022 and has since partnered with multi-media company GAG-LAB to co-produce innovative and engaging music interactive shows.

After establishing a career in New York for over fifteen years, she returned to her hometown of Las Vegas to make a difference in people’s lives through performing, teaching, and outreach. In 2015, she founded Notes with a Purpose, a groundbreaking nonprofit investing in societal enrichment through creative music programming. Her nonprofit addresses barriers to the arts through innovative programs, such as the Music JuiceBox Series and Mission: Music Live, servicing a diverse range of communities which include over 12,500 children and 4,000 disenfranchised adults. A recognized “community leader” (Las Vegas Review-Journal), she has also brought her expertise in organization and strategic development to other arts nonprofits, including Opera Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Music Teacher’s Association. 

As a daughter of a long-standing piano teacher in Las Vegas, Le has always had a great passion for teaching. Prior to opening her teaching studio in Las Vegas, she ran a leading piano studio in New York for over 10 years. She taught students ranging from 4 to 86 years young; some were the children of NYC’s top musicians, and her adult students included prominent architects, doctors, and scientists. Her younger students would also follow in her footsteps: her students have performed at Carnegie Hall after winning an international piano competition. In addition to teaching privately, Alexandria gives masterclasses and presentations at universities and music schools around North America, often being asked to present on arts advocacy, teaching artistry, and entrepreneurialism. She also co-founded and directed the annual three-day Las Vegas Academy Piano Institute, a series of workshops, presentations, and performances for the 80+ piano majors at the Grammy award-winning high school.

Le was deeply influenced by her piano teacher of eight years, Erna Gulabyan, a preeminent piano teacher in the California Bay Area who came through the Yerevan and Moscow Conservatories of Music. Le holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Masters degree in piano performance from SUNY Stony Brook and a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, where she was studied under the tutelage of Christina Dahl and Douglas Humpherys. She is a graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and an inaugural inductee in their Hall of Fame.

She invites her audiences to interact with her through her Instagram @alexandrialepiano and more information can be found at alexandriale.com. 

She is an official Yamaha Artist.