Alejandra Santillanes is a Mexican-American concert flutist based in Baltimore, MD. A passionate and dedicated educator, she is a Teaching Artist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids Program and Flute Faculty with Music and Mindfulness Orchestral and Chamber Music Summer Program.

Highly driven to work with El Sistema model programs which provide equitable access to music education for young people, Ms. Santillanes has also been a guest Teaching Artist with the Peabody Innovation and Music Academy, Miami Music Project and Musicians for the World Inc. As a collaborator and performer, she is a freelance orchestral musician and formerly served as principal flutist of Boston’s CØDA Ensemble, a chamber group dedicated to bringing under-performed and newly commissioned works alike to the spotlight.

Ms. Santillanes is an alumni of the Domaine Forget International Music Festival, and the Teaching Artist Training Institute. She holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory (M.M.) and Florida Southern College (B.M.), and is forever indebted to her primary teachers and mentors, Sharon Sparrow, Elizabeth Rowe, Linda Toote, and Colleen Blagov.