Xander Knecht

Viola, violin

Los Angeles, CA
@xkcity

Xander Knecht

Viola, violin

About

Alexander Cai Knecht, violinist and violist, holds a DMA from USC and a Master's degree from Juilliard. In 2018, he became a member of the viola section of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, he has worked as a Teaching Artist for the Caesura Youth Orchestra at Columbus Elementary School in Glendale. In 2019, he founded a free violin class outreach program at the Los Angeles Chinese SDA Church. He serves each week as a violinist at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Loma Linda. He has been a mentor teaching strings in the CKC-Music community engagement program in San Bernardino since its founding in 2008, continuing to the present day through Zoom.

This year he was featured in a live performance on AM 870 in Glendale, on the Impassioned Angels program. He is an active private teacher. He comes from a family of Chinese, Korean and Caucasion ancestry.

Music

Classical as well as R&B and rock covers

Videos

Past groupmuses (1)