Alexandra Schleuderer
Passionate vocalist & leader of worship native to the Hudson Valley, Alexandra Schleuderer leads, performs, teaches, and creates actively throughout the area.
Residing with her partner Shok, cat Remi, and dog Nami, Alex is enjoying her hometown’s beauty and serenity while deepening her Jewish and Spiritual studies with ALEPH’s Ordination Program, now in her third year on the Cantorial path and beginning her second year training in ALEPH’s Hashpa’ah (Spiritual Director) program.
A conservatory trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Alexandra is interested in creating her own music, ritual, and art through expanding her creative, spiritual, and prayer practices.
Alexandra is beginning her sixth year serving as the Cantorial Soloist and now Student Chazzan for Congregation Emanuel of the Hudson Valley, leading weekly shabbat and holiday services alongside Rabbi Jack Sherratt. She deeply appreciates the opportunity to officiate at funerals and shivas, and other important lifecycle events.
Within the community she has fostered the music program through musician engagement, serves on the Committee for Spiritual Practice, tutors B’nai Mitzvah students, and teaches the Trope Class.
In her performance work, Alexandra has found a true excitement and connection in the performance of the voices of our time.She served as an active member and soprano soloist of C4, a collective whose purpose is to shine a light on choral music written within the last 25 years. Other new works performed recently, David Lang's The Mile Long Opera and Francis Pollock's Stinney: An American Execution.
Alexandra made her professional debut with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra for their 2012 performance of Mahler's 4th Symphony. Roles performed include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Amy March (Little Women), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Baby Doe (The Ballad of Baby Doe), and Persephone (La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers), among others.
Alexandra holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts in Music, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Oneonta.