Alexandra Cooreman

Alexandra Cooreman, from Brussels, Belgium, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2021 and studies violin with Ida Kavafian. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Cooreman is the Milka Violin Artist Fellow.

Ms. Cooreman started playing the violin at age five and performed on the stage by age six. An exceptional young talent, she was admitted in 2013 to the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium, where she studied with Augustin Dumay and Tatiana Samouil. Ms. Cooreman continued her musical education at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with Anna Chumachenco and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Michaela Martin.

The Belgian-Polish violinist has won first prizes in many competitions, such as the Kocian Violin Competition, the Breughel Competition, and the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition. From a very young age, Ms. Cooreman has played solo with various orchestras, such as the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the European Philharmonia, and the Flemish Chamber Philharmonic.

In the summer of 2023, Ms. Cooreman performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso five times with the Flanders Festival Orchestra under the baton of Dirk Brossé. This year, she received the special prize for the best interpretation of Tigran Mansurian’s “Lamento” piece at the Khachaturian International Competition.

Ms. Cooreman performs on a modern violin, built by Charles Coquet in 2017, generously on loan from El Pasito.