Alex Richard (she/her/they/them) is a versatile performer, creator, administrator, and educator. Alex has a varied work portfolio that includes managerial, marketing, administrative, and customer service positions in addition to her musical and educational experience. Having been a teacher for the past 8 years, Alex consistently uses her professional skills to foster artists growth through communication and community engagement. She currently serves as Secretary for the Percussive Arts Society North Carolina Chapter.

Alex has a vested interest in new and popular music, and how those intersect to inform contemporary performance. As an advocate for new music, Alex regularly commissions and joins consortium efforts for new and exciting percussion works. In the Spring of 2026, she performed a solo recital featuring modern electro-acoustic works and an original composition, Ultraviolet Vantablack, written for Andrew Porter’s “A Night Under the Stars” in Culp Planetarium. In the Fall of 2025, she performed Thierry De Mey’s Silence Must Be! as a part of the PASIC New Music Focus Day, and in Fall of 2024, she performed alongside several PAS North Carolina members, presenting accessible modern percussion ensemble works at the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference.

Alex engages with creative practices across a variety of media. Largely inspired by Austin Kleon’s Steal Like An Artist and other works, she regularly paints, draws, collages, writes, collects, and designs in order to engage with the creative processes through multiple avenues. Tangibility is a central idea in her work, and she aims to find various ways to explore the idea of the tangible through music and visual arts.

Alex formerly served as Adjunct Instructor of Music at High Point University teaching drumset, percussion ensemble, American music history, and music communication. She is credited in assisting in the development of the textbook “History of American Music” edited by Candice Burrows, DMA, available through Cognella Publishing. She also served as percussion instructor and arranger for the Elon University Fire of the Carolinas Marching Band, and as Customer Service and Print Operations Manager at C Alan Music Publications.

Alex received her M.M. in Percussion Performance from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studying with Dr. Dave Hall, and her B.M. in Music Education from The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, studying with Dr. Andrew Bliss and Keith Brown. Alex likes to spend her free time baking, listening to Dungeons & Dragons podcasts, and hanging out with her small gray cat, Bubbles.

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