Getting to know Alexis Sykes
 

Violinist/Violist, Alexis Sykes is a member of New York City Ballet Orchestra and performs regularly as a substitute musician with New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia, and New York City Opera Orchestras.

She received her B.M. and M.M. from the Juilliard school, where she studied violin and viola with Sally Thomas, Masao Kawasaki and Karen Tuttle. Additionally, she earned a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Boston Symphony concertmaster Malcolm Lowe. 

Alexis has also collaborated with popular artists such as Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Peter Gabriel, Michael Buble, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Carrie Underwood, Andrea Bocelli, and Adam Levine, as well as appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, Saturday Night Live and the Today Show. Her movie soundtracks include Mother, Begin Again, Jimmy P., Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander 2, The Greatest Showman, Keeping up with the Joneses, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, So Undercover, Great Hope Springs, A Late Quartet, and The Goldfinch. 

Alexis was a guest artist at the Peruvian North American Cultural Institute: Festival de Musica de Camara, for five summers, where she had the pleasure of coaching, giving master classes, and performing with a mixture of professional, student and adult amateur musicians. In a similar vein, she participated in the outreach festival Conciertos De La Villa De Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in fall 2017. As a pedagogue, she has been running a private teaching studio in Brooklyn for the past thirteen years, alongside teaching chamber music, violin, and viola on faculty at the Third Street Music School and St. Ann’s School.