Award-winning violinist Alejandra Switala combines her American and Mexican roots with an energetic and curious spirit to explore repertoire ranging from the Baroque period to music from living composers.

Since her professional debut with Ft. Worth Symphony at the age of 13, Allie has performed as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, and most recently with the Indianapolis Symphony performing Clarice Assad’s Dreamscapes. Highlights of Allie’s extensive orchestral and ensemble work include sitting concertmaster of the Sarasota Music Festival Orchestra, The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, and the Cleveland Opera Theater, and as an ensemble member with the Matt Jones Orchestra, Shattered Glass, Fulcrum Point, Zafa Collective, Sphinx Virtuosi, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared on albums for artists such as Noname, John Legend, and Dionne Warwick, and on soundtracks for the movies Honk for Jesus and Linoleum.

Recently a top prize winner at the 2023 Sphinx Competition in Detroit, Michigan, Allie is also a laureate of the Cooper International Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Klein International Competition in San Francisco, California, where she won the additional Best Performance of Commissioned Work and the Pablo Casals Bach Prize. Ms. Switala has been a featured artist on nationally syndicated media such as the PBS television show From the Top Live at Carnegie Hall, the NPR radio show Performance Today, and Chicago WFMT’s Introductions. In November Allie was featured with the Juliani Ensemble on Live from WFMT, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence.

Most recently a student of Ilya Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Allie is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank. Her early formative teachers include Jan Mark Sloman and Roland and Almita Vamos. Along with maintaining a career as a chamber musician and soloist, Allie is currently a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and has the utmost fun running a series of chamber music reading shows called Pilsen Classical with her best friend Everardo Sanchez in Chicago.