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. Most 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.

Praised by the Chicago Classical Review for performing with ”unabashed emotion”, Allie is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator. Allie has performed as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic; as an ensemble member with the Matt Jones Orchestra, Shattered Glass, Fulcrum Point, Sphinx Virtuosi, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; as a concertmaster of the Sarasota Music Festival Orchestra, The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, and the Cleveland Opera Theater. She currently has a one-year contract with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and has the utmost fun running a series of chamber music reading parties called Pilsen Classical with her best friend Everardo Sanchez in Chicago.