Alexandra Opsahl

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Alexandra Opsahl studied recorder and cornetto at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2004 with 1st Class Honors. She went on to study privately with Bruce Dickey in Italy, continuing these studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. She works now both as a cornettist and recorder player across Europe and the US, and has performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Apollo's Fire, American Bach Soloists, Capella Artemisia and Barokkanerne. She has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, and played in both Glyndebourne Opera and Oslo Opera productions of "L'Incoronazione di Poppea". She recently recorded the Vivaldi C-minor Concerto with the Norwegian period orchestra 'Barokkanerne' under the label '2L.'