Bio

Alexander Roode is a cellist and self-taught composer based in Orange County, California. Alex strives to write accessible modern music for traditional ensembles.

Alex was the winner of the 2014 Irvine Valley College Student Composition Competition, the recipient of 2020 Barbara Buehlman Prize for Composition presented by the Midwest Clinic, and the winner of the 2021 Quadre International Competition Contest, presented by Quadre, the Voice of Four Horns.

Alex has performed a wide range of classical repertoire with the UCLA Symphony Orchestra, the Irvine Valley College Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony Irvine.

Alex has a B.S. in Mathematics of Computation from UCLA and works as a software engineer in Irvine, California.

Alexander Roode