Violist Alexina Hawkins’ musicianship has been shaped by a love of collaboration, conversation and experimentation, finding connections and meaning in music traversing a wide range of eras and styles.

Since moving to Berlin from Australia in 2015, Alexina has had extensive experience performing, recording and touring in classical and contemporary music ensembles, including the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz, Solistensemble Kaleidoskop, M.A.M. Ensemble and Stegreif Orchester, appearing in concert across Europe, North & South America, Asia and Australia. A curiosity for the unknown and potentially wild in music has led her to improvisation and recent recording collaborations with artists including Lione, Anna Morley, Agnes Obel and Damon Albarn, as well as two of Berlin’s most exciting young jazz musicians in the trio Hawkins/Forde/Dinsdale. Alexina is a founding member of contemporary chamber music ensemble hear now berlin, which released its debut album Music in Circles (Backlash Music) in June 2023, and has collaborated with Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Becca Stevens and clarinetist/saxophonist/composer Ken Thomson. Alexina is also a member of the Phoenix Trio, founded with flautist Lina Andonovska and guitarist Harold Gretton in 2008 at the Canberra School of Music. See: Media

Alexina has performed in solo/chamber music formations at festivals including Bang On A Can Summer Festival (USA), Brisbane Music Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Bangalow Festival, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Ultraschall Festival, X100 Festival/Berlin Atonal, Festival Opera Barga (Italy) and NOMUS Festival (Serbia). She has also been featured twice as part of Berlin’s iconic weekly new music recital series, unerhörte musik. As a Fellow of the Australian National Academy of Music in 2015, she was mentored by Genevieve Lacey, and curated and presented three concerts including several premieres featuring the viola.