Alexandra Gardner

Alexandra Gardner composes for varied instrumentations and often mixes acoustic instruments with electronics, drawing inspiration from mythology, the natural sciences, and contemporary literature. Her compositions are regularly featured at venues worldwide, including the Aspen Music Festival and School, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, The Kennedy Center, and the Warsaw Autumn.

Alexandra has received honors from American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Mid-America Arts Alliance, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Netherland-America Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harvestworks, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, MacDowell, and Willapa Bay AiR. She spent two years as a visiting composer at the Institut Universitari de l’Audiovisual in Barcelona, Spain, and has served as Composer in Residence for the Seattle Symphony. Recent works include the string quartet Watershed, which explores sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland, and Time Unfolding, a saxophone concerto inspired by images from the James Webb Space Telescope.