Alexandra Whittingham

British classical guitarist Alexandra Wittingham was born in Manchester in 1997. She began learning the classical guitar at the age of eight, and soon distinguished herself for her virtuosity and musical sensitivity. Trained at Chetham's School of Music, then at London's Royal Academy of Music, she graduated with honors and won several distinctions, including the Julian Bream Prize for excellence in the interpretation of guitar music. Specializing in the classical and romantic repertoire, she is particularly interested in the works of Spanish and Latin American composers such as Tárrega, Albéniz, Villa-Lobos or Barrios, while interpreting with finesse the great European masters of the XIXᵉ century such as Giuliani, Sor or Mertz. She became known to the general public thanks to her videos published on her social networks, where her elegant, precise and expressive playing seduced millions of listeners around the world. In parallel with her digital career, she performs on European stages, notably in the UK, France and Italy, taking part in numerous festivals. Her debut album, My European Journey, released in 2021 by Delphian Records, mixes romantic compositions and baroque pieces adapted for guitar, including pieces by Tárrega, Jaime Felipe José Bosch, Catharina Josepha Pratten, J. K. Mertz, Regondi, Legnani, Napoléon Coste, Frederik Rung and Ernest Shand. The guitarist extends her repertoire to include pieces by Satie, Glass, Chopin, Dyens and Grieg, and other popular pieces such as Édith Piaf's "La Foule", which are the subject of singles prior to the release of her second album Letters from Paris (2025), including compositions by Debussy, Fauré, Hahn, Presti, Lutyens, Aznavour, Tiersen or an adaptation of Barbara Pravi's "Voilà".