Chair Yoga w/ Guest Teacher Alix Raspé

Alix Raspé Gray, professionally known as Alix Raspé, is an award-winning

classical harpist, chamber musician, music educator, musical entrepreneur and

yoga instructor. Alix currently serves as an Associate Harpist for the Columbus

Symphony. While maintaining her own thriving harp studio, Alix serves on the faculty at

Brookside Music School, as well as coaching harp and chamber music for the Chamber

Music Connection (CMC). Alix has served on the faculty of Boston Youth Symphony

Orchestra’s Summer Camp, Note-Worthy Experiences, and as a Harp Specialist at The

Harp Connection. As a musical entrepreneur, Alix currently serves as Marketing and

Development Director for The Chamber Music Connection. Alix graduated Pi Kappa

Lambda from New England Conservatory with her Masters in Harp Performance and

received her Bachelor of Music from New York University where she studied with Bridget

Kibbey. Prior to attending NYU, Alix attended Juilliard Pre-College where she studied with

June Han.

Alix has received numerous awards as a soloist including: the Annapolis Music Festival

Maestro Award for Outstanding Soloist, the NYU Excellence in String Performance and

Leadership Award, the NYU Orchestral Excellence Award, and winner of the NYU

String Competition. In 2016, Alix was awarded First Runner-Up in the NEC Strings

Concerto Competition. Alix has attended such prestigious music festivals as the

Tanglewood Music Center (Harp Fellow), the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin

International Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute (Harp Fellow), MusicAlp,

Saratoga Harp Colony, Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific, and Interlochen

Arts Camp.

You can hear Alix performing with Roger Daltrey of The Who, The Late Late Show with

James Corden, IHeartRadio, with artist MAX, the soundtrack of RuPaul’s Drag Races

(Season 5), the film Reservation Road and WMNR Fine Arts Radio.

After practicing yoga for almost 10 years, Alix completed a 200-hr Yoga Alliance

Teacher Training program at GIVE Yoga in Clintonville, OH. Blending her passions for

both yoga and music, Alix has been teaching Yoga for Musicians at the Chamber Music

Connection, as well as her own online yoga class, “Om is Where the Harp is”, that

concludes each yoga class with a relaxing harp performance. In all of her classes, Alix

believes in empowering and supporting her students to achieve their goals of flexibility

and self-love. Alix currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Erik, and their

miniature Australian Shepherd, Ollie.