Alexandra Kassouf is a performer and teacher, based in Chicago, IL. She has performed as both a singer and a dancer with Opera Columbus, Queen City Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Folks Operetta, Contemporary Dance Theater, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago. In 2023, Alexandra performed the role of Anna Gomez in Third Eye Theatre Ensemble’s final production, The Consul. She appeared as Zorah with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago last spring, and she looks forward to returning to GSOC as Kate in their upcoming production of The Pirates of Penzance. A current member of the Florentine Opera chorus, she will be the ensemble soprano in their production of Acis and Galatea this February, featuring a 5-voice ensemble. Alexandra has also sung with the Grant Park Chorus for the past three seasons.

As a soloist, Alexandra has performed at the Constella Festival, the Accent 11 Festival, Performance and Time Arts, virtually with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and with Anima Children’s Choir. She performed the US premiere of Michael Csanyi-Wills’ 3 Budapest Songs at the Constella Festival. With Fresco Opera Theater, she premiered the role of Clara Schumann in Clara, and with Evanston Chamber Opera the role of Gwendolyn in Francis Lynch’s For Those in Peril. This March, she will join Consonance (formerly Chicago Choral Artists) as the soprano 2 soloist for the Bach Mass in B Minor.

An avid performer of new music, Alexandra was a founding member of Avimimus, a vocal duo specializing in early music and new works. During their 2020-2021 season, Avimimus released several virtual programs, including 2 full length multimedia concerts, a miniature program of miniatures, and a world-premiere of Steve Landis’s Evocations. The duo also toured the Thousand Islands region, performing at the historic Clayton Opera House and at Densmore Church.

As a choreographer, Alexandra collaborated on two operas for Queen City Opera, Wagner’s Siegfried and Weber’s Der Freischütz, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona for Cincinnati Chamber Opera, and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at CCM.

Currently, Alexandra teaches voice lessons and Alexander Technique lessons in her private studio, The Open Space. She is a certified Alexander Technique teacher (M.AmSAT) and has taught workshops at Trinity Christian College, North Central College, VanderCook College, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Florentine Opera, the University of Memphis, Civic Music MKE, and UW-Milwaukee. She completed a week-long teaching residency at UW-Stevens Point this past fall, working with hundreds of students and faculty throughout the departments of music, dance, and theatre. From 2020-2023, Alexandra taught an Alexander Technique course at UW-Milwaukee, adapting the course curriculum for in-person, fully virtual, and hybrid semesters.

Alexandra earned a Master of Music at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UW-Milwaukee, where she also studied dance. She completed her Alexander Technique teaching certification at the ATTIC in Chicago.