UPCOMING EVENTS
UBC Contemporary Players @ Belkin Art Gallery: The Structure of Smoke
Grace performs as a member of the UBC 2025-26 Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery
UBCSO Concert #6
Grace performs as rotating Concertmaster/Principal of the University of British Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Program Includes:
TBD
Tickets: https://chancentre.com/events/ubcso-apr10-2026/
Elements Interdisciplinary Experience (Music, Word, Dance) #1
ELEMENTS: an Experience of Music, Dance & Word
In the midst of alarming news about climate disasters and anxiety, the earth can be a solace. In this show we will bring music, dance and poetry to celebrate fire, water, wind and soil. We will flow, we will move and be moved with each element, We will remember that we are made of each of them: fire, water, wind and soil. Come remember who we are!
April 24 + 25, 2026
Claudio Carvalhaes - spoken word
Will Rand - piano
Grace M. Alexander - violin
Raphael Balk Zimmerman - clarinet
Martha Chapman - dancer
Apollonia Holzer - dancer
Elements Interdisciplinary Experience (Music, Word, Dance) #2
ELEMENTS: an Experience of Music, Dance & Word
In the midst of alarming news about climate disasters and anxiety, the earth can be a solace. In this show we will bring music, dance and poetry to celebrate fire, water, wind and soil. We will flow, we will move and be moved with each element, We will remember that we are made of each of them: fire, water, wind and soil. Come remember who we are!
April 24 + 25, 2026
Claudio Carvalhaes - spoken word
Will Rand - piano
Grace M. Alexander - violin
Raphael Balk Zimmerman - clarinet
Martha Chapman - dancer
Apollonia Holzer - dancer
Firebirth: Kindling Resilience at UCLA
Motivated by the sociocultural and economic impacts that the Palisades and Altadena fires of January 2025 had on the greater Los Angeles (LA) area, Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles will offer a community-oriented space for UCLA students, faculty, staff, and residents of the surrounding area to critically reflect on the sounds of LA after such fires. The event will also act as a site of education and healing prompted by hearing from those who study and engage with fire ecology. This event will center around a new composition for violin and piano, Firebirth, composed by Will Rand (b. 1999). Firebirth is a part of a commission project entitled “Resilience Sounds” intended to explore the relationship between music, the natural world, and communities within it. Composer Will Rand and violinist Grace M. Alexander will offer this work as a performance and be present to discuss their experiences and perspectives on this composition. Alongside the performance will be a discussion of fire ecology, safety and community (re)building after the devastation of the LA fires framed by perspectives solicited from government employees for the City of Los Angeles and graduate students from UCLA in musicology and environmental science or ecology, including a talk by Michele Yamamoto who recently gave a paper on this at the 2025 American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. This event will also be taped live for a podcast episode for the organization, EarthStory, which seeks to raise awareness of the interconnections between living beings through ecologically-inspired storytelling, song and communal gathering. Ultimately, it is the goal of this project to incorporate interdisciplinary modes of thinking, visual and performing arts, and multiple modalities of presentation and community-based teaching in order to foster a space of action, healing, and reflection for the broader Los Angeles community.
This program offers a forum for a public discussion/engagement surrounding the recent wildfires in Los Angeles that centers creative practice at all levels. “Firebirth” itself was inspired by indigenous cultural fire practices, and through this event, also serves as a point of inspiration for living composers and artists. The piece invites the audience to consider their own relationship with fire and offers a study on how music can be a conduit between ecological understandings of fire and humankind’s lived experience with fire that threatens life. Music offers a way for people to gather to reflect on their shared experiences and process difficult moments in life. It also offers audiences a chance to reconsider how they want to relate with these difficult experiences moving forward. Ultimately, this offers a space for listening, reflection, and new sounding practices for a community deeply impacted by wildfire.
Við Djúpið Music Festival 2026
Grace works as a development assistant and performs as a violinist at Við Djúpið Music Festival.
UBC Early Music Chamber & Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Orchestra Concert
Grace performs as a member of the UBC Early Music Ensembles in chamber ensembles.
Grace M. Alexander - Master of Music Recital 2
Grace will perform her final degree recital at the University of British Columbia School of Music for completion of her Master of Music in Violin Performance degree.
Program:
G. Alexander & K. Jeffrey - Crackling Knapweed for two violins and looping stations
A. Kocian - Mooring Posts for solo violin
A. Sokolovic - City Songs for Violin and Piano
A. Beach - Sonata for Violin and Piano
C. Wuorinen - Spinoff for Violin, Double Bass, and Congas
Collaborators: Vivienne Thamrin (piano), Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard (piano), Kelk Jeffrey (violin), Lydia Sorenson (congas), Matteo Prevosto-Riou (double bass)
FREE EVENT - NO TICKET REQUIRED
UBC Contemporary Players @ Barnett Recital Hall
Grace performs as a member of the UBC 2025-26 Contemporary Players Ensemble
SPECIAL GUEST COMPOSER: Ana Sokolovic
Vetta Chamber Music: A Look to the Future (4)
Grace performs as part of the Vetta Chamber Music Mentorship Orchestra for the 2025-26 season.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
John Rutter - Suite for String Orchestra
Jocelyn Morlock - Solace for String Orchestra
Dorothy Chang - New Commission by Vetta Chamber Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Vetta Chamber Music: A Look to the Future (3)
Grace performs as part of the Vetta Chamber Music Mentorship Orchestra for the 2025-26 season.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
John Rutter - Suite for String Orchestra
Jocelyn Morlock - Solace for String Orchestra
Dorothy Chang - New Commission by Vetta Chamber Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Vetta Chamber Music: A Look to the Future (2)
Grace performs as part of the Vetta Chamber Music Mentorship Orchestra for the 2025-26 season.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
John Rutter - Suite for String Orchestra
Jocelyn Morlock - Solace for String Orchestra
Dorothy Chang - New Commission by Vetta Chamber Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Vetta Chamber Music: A Look to the Future (1)
Grace performs as part of the Vetta Chamber Music Mentorship Orchestra for the 2025-26 season.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
John Rutter - Suite for String Orchestra
Jocelyn Morlock - Solace for String Orchestra
Dorothy Chang - New Commission by Vetta Chamber Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Tickets: https://www.vtixonline.com/concert-four---a-look-to-the-future/
Jasper Wood Studio Recital 2025-26
Grace performs as a member of Jasper Wood’s Violin Studio at the University of British Columbia in his annual studio recital.
FREE EVENT - No ticket required
Vancouver Philharmonic - 2026 Concerto Competition
Grace performs as a section player in the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra in their 2026 Concerto Competition concert.
Kiuryaq - PuSh Festival Vancouver (with Kermode Quartet)
Grace performs as a member of Kermode Quartet as part of the Kiuryaq show, music written by Carmen Braden.
Tickets and Info: https://chancentre.com/events/kiuryaq/
Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with the Northern Lights—“kiuryaq” in Inuvialuktun—created through collaboration among Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Canada, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Sápmi (Norway).
Christmas Eve at St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Grace performs as part of the Christmas Eve Music and Celebration at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Matteo Prevosto-Riou Recital - Indiana University
Grace performs as a member of a trio with Matteo Prevosto-Riou and Lydia Sorenson for Matteo’s second-year recital.
Program:
Charles Wuorinen - Spinoff for Violin, Double Bass, and Congas
UBC Early Music Chamber Music Concert
Grace performs as a member of the UBC Early Music Ensembles, both in a chamber ensemble and in the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme
Aaron McDonald - DMA Recital
Grace performs on Aaron McDonald’s DMA Chamber Recital
Program: Golijov - The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Event free and open to the public, no tickets required
UBCSO Concert #3 (with UBC Choirs)
Grace performs as rotating Concertmaster/Principal of the University of British Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Program Includes:
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Holst - The Planets
UBC Contemporary Players @ Belkin Art Gallery
Grace performs as a member of the UBC 2025-26 Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery
UBC Early Music Chamber & Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Orchestra Concert
Grace performs as a member of the UBC Early Music Ensembles, both in a chamber ensemble and in the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme
UBC Chamber Choir Concert
Grace performs as a violinist for the UBC Chamber Choir Concert.
Program Includes:
Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart - Missa brevis in d minor
UBC Contemporary Players @ Barnett Recital Hall
Grace performs as a member of the UBC 2025-26 Contemporary Players Ensemble
UBCSO Concert #2
Grace performs as rotating Concertmaster/Principal of the University of British Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Program Includes:
Brahms - Symphony No. 3
Tickets: https://chancentre.com/events/ubcso-nov8-2025/
UBC Contemporary Players @ Hatch Gallery
Grace performs as a member of the UBC 2025-26 Contemporary Players Ensemble
Alireza Ghorbani in Concert - World Tour (Vancouver) #2
Grace performs as a member of the string section for Alireza Ghorbani in Concert performance in Vancouver, BC Canada.
Alireza Ghorbani in Concert - World Tour (Vancouver) #1
Grace performs as a member of the string section for Alireza Ghorbani in Concert performance in Vancouver, BC Canada.