Alex McKamie has earned degrees in Violin Performance from the University of Northern Colorado (Master of Music), and Truman State University (Bachelor of Music), in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies from Truman. He completed the Performer’s Certificate in Violin at the University of Wyoming, where he held the Charles Moore M. D. Concertmaster Fellowship. He is now attending the University of North Texas as a violin student of Dr. Felix Olschofka, and will graduate in August, 2022 with a DMA in Violin Performance. As a graduate teaching assistant he has led sectional rehearsals for the first and second violins, taught studio violin, and performed in graduate chamber and orchestral ensembles. During the summer of 2019, Alex McKamie sat concertmaster of the orchestra for the International Lyric Academy, held for three weeks during July in Vicenza and Venice, Italy. Among various chamber music recitals and opera scenes concerts, two performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni were given at the Teatro Olimpico, a sixteenth-century theatre listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Recently, he was awarded a travel grant to China from the UNT College of Music, to appear on an international panel for the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University. As a featured speaker at the “Forum on International Humanities Education,” he gave a lecture entitled “Digital Humanities and Music Performance” and participated in a panel discussion devoted to music in the liberal arts.
As founding member and director of The Alton Ensemble http://www.thealtonensemble.com/ Alex McKamie has given performances that include appearances on Lifetime Channel (subsidiary of A & E) “Married at First Sight – Dallas,” episodes 1 & 2; at the American Airlines Center in Dallas; the Perot Museum of Nature and Science; and numerous other venues in the DFW metroplex. He has played in master classes conducted by noted classical musicians, in both the United States and Italy, including Alvaro deGranda (Assistant Concertmaster, Cleveland Orchestra); Rachel Barton Pine (international concert violinist); and Alberto Bologni (Prof. of Violin, Istituzione di Alta Cultura Luigi Boccherini in Lucca, Italy). Alex McKamie’s principal teachers include: Dr. Felix Olschofka, University of North Texas; Dr. John Fadial, University of Wyoming; Professor Margaret Soper Gutierrez, University of Northern Colorado; Dr. Jubal Fulks, University of Northern Colorado; Professor Richard Fuchs, University of Northern Colorado; and Mrs. Amy Kuhlman Appold, first violinist and founding member of the Maia String Quartet. He is the son of David and Shirley McKamie, who both serve on the music faculty at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.
Alex plays on a 1929 Ernst Heinrich Roth instrument purchased from Claire Givens Violin shop in Minneapolis, MN.
As founding member and director of The Alton Ensemble http://www.thealtonensemble.com/ Alex McKamie has given performances that include appearances on Lifetime Channel (subsidiary of A & E) “Married at First Sight – Dallas,” episodes 1 & 2; at the American Airlines Center in Dallas; the Perot Museum of Nature and Science; and numerous other venues in the DFW metroplex. He has played in master classes conducted by noted classical musicians, in both the United States and Italy, including Alvaro deGranda (Assistant Concertmaster, Cleveland Orchestra); Rachel Barton Pine (international concert violinist); and Alberto Bologni (Prof. of Violin, Istituzione di Alta Cultura Luigi Boccherini in Lucca, Italy). Alex McKamie’s principal teachers include: Dr. Felix Olschofka, University of North Texas; Dr. John Fadial, University of Wyoming; Professor Margaret Soper Gutierrez, University of Northern Colorado; Dr. Jubal Fulks, University of Northern Colorado; Professor Richard Fuchs, University of Northern Colorado; and Mrs. Amy Kuhlman Appold, first violinist and founding member of the Maia String Quartet. He is the son of David and Shirley McKamie, who both serve on the music faculty at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO.
Alex plays on a 1929 Ernst Heinrich Roth instrument purchased from Claire Givens Violin shop in Minneapolis, MN.