Orchestra Bio

Alexia Schulz is a graduate student in astrophysics. She began playing the violin at the age of 8 in the Suzuki program at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, AZ. She studied there with Ruth Engle Larner, Dr. Louise Scott and Douglas Locke. While in college, she played in the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, and also performed with the Jamaica Plain Symphony. She was the concertmaster of the Harvard University graduate student orchestra at Dudley House from 1998-2002. From 2002-05, she served in the US Air Force. While stationed at Kirtland AFB, NM, she was a member of the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra. She has since moved to Berkeley, where you will currently find her performing with the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra, dabbling in various folk music, and amusing herself with Argentine tango, Scandinavian and other pithy folk dances... while in principle also completing her dissertation.