Alexandra Pierce (February 21, 1934 – February 1, 2021) was an American composer,[1] pianist, music theorist,[2] movement educator, author,[3] and Emerita Research Professor of Music and Movement at the University of Redlands.
[4] Born and raised in Philadelphia, her family later moved to Washington, D.C., where she studied piano with contemporary music specialist, Margaret Tolson.
Her book, Deepening Musical Performance through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation (Indiana University Press), was published in 2007.
[11] The tone poem Behemoth (1976) has been recorded by the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Reuben Blundell.
2, Dances on the Face of the Deep, completed in 1988 was recorded by the Koszalin State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Szymon Kawalla on the Vienna Modern Masters label.