… is an American composer who has been the recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland House Award, the Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship, with residencies at June-in-Buffalo, the MacDowell Colony, Tanglewood, and Yaddo.  She has been commissioned and performed by the Aaron Copland Foundation, the Barlow Endow-ment, the California E.A.R. Unit, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the JACK Quartet, the National Flute Association, the NOW Ensemble, Southwest Chamber Music, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Vermont Chamber Music Festival, among others.  She completed her studies at Baylor University, The Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, working with composers Donald Erb, Eugene O’Brien, Samuel Adler and Joseph Schwantner. Alexander was a Co-Founder of the New Music on the Point Festival, where she served as Artistic and Program Director from 2010-2014.