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Defined as a compelling musician, Galician cellist Alejandra Díaz is prize winner of the Carnegie Palmer Award of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and finalist of the Pablo Casals International Award. In March 2022 Alejandra is appointed the Associate Principal Cello of the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. After being awarded the LSO String Experience Scheme in 2013, Alejandra becomes the first Spanish cellist in history to perform alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, as part of two tribute concerts to Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez at the Barbican Hall. Alejandra performs under the baton of internationally acclaimed conductors like Dan Ettinger, Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis or James Gaffigan, to name a few. Alejandra completes the Guildhall Artist Masters of Performance in 2014 under Prof. Ursula Smith and the Bachelor Degree with Honours by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011 under Prof. Oleg Kogan.
In 2023 Alejandra launched her first album "BERCE". An homage to her homeland, Galicia, the album is made of her own arrangements from traditional Galician music for solo cello. " BERCE is a tribute to the land: Galicia. A land to be born, to grow, to dream and to fall in love. It is my return to my homeland and to my early childhood, through some of the songs from the oral tradition that I learned as a child and to which I pay a special tribute through my voice and that of the cello, united along this path by the folkloric and traditional Galician music. Music that defines not only the identity of a place, but the essence of its people, its landscapes, its customs; the longing for a land many times forgotten, but which still preserves its magic and authenticity contained in each of its distinguished rhythms and ancestral melodies which have inspired me in this first discographic work."