Alejandra Santillanes

Alejandra Santillanes is a Mexican-American concert flutist based in Baltimore, Maryland. A passionate and dedicated educator, she maintains a private teaching studio and is a Teaching Artist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program. Highly driven to work with programs modeled on El Sistema that provide equitable access to music education for young people, Alejandra has also been a guest faculty Teaching Artist with Peabody Preparatory’s Tuned-In Summer Program and Musicians for the World Inc. As a collaborator and performer, she is a freelance orchestral musician and formerly served as principal flutist of Boston’s CODA Ensemble, a chamber group dedicated to bringing under-performed and newly commissioned works to the spotlight.

Alejandra is an alumna of the Virtual Flute Music Festival and of the Domaine Forget International Music Festival in Quebec, where she has performed for flutists such as Emmanuel Pahud, James Walker, Helen Blackbum, and Sonora Slocum. She holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory (M.M.) and Florida Southern College (B.M.), and she is forever indebted to her primary teachers and mentors, Sharon Sparrow, Elizabeth Rowe, Linda Toote, and Colleen Blagov.