Renowned for her powerful musical energy and rich tonal palette, Alexandra Bidi has been principal harpist with the Orchestre de Paris since January 2026.

Having made a name for herself by winning several competitions for young performers (Léopold Bellan, Martine Géliot, Collégium 21 in 2019, Velenje in 2023), at the age of 21 she was awarded second prize at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition (Germany, 2023), as well as the Prize for the best performance of the commissioned contemporary work (En pointe sèche by Édith Canat de Chizy).

Following her debut as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2023, she was invited to perform as a soloist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Badische Philharmonie in Pforzheim, the Lorraine National Opera Orchestra and the Dutch ensemble Ciconia Consort. ..

Selected for the EBU’s Euroradio Top Young Performers programme, which aims to showcase the finest talents in classical music, recordings of her concerts are broadcast on radio stations in France, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Latvia, Croatia and the Netherlands.

A passionate chamber musician, she shares the stage with Magali Mosnier, Guillaume Paoletti, François Salque, Iris Scialom and Krzysztof Michalski, with whom she will record an album in December 2025 for the Italian label Da Vinci Classics.

His collaborations with orchestras such as Les Siècles, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mulhouse National Orchestra, the Shanghai Opera Orchestra and the La Monnaie Orchestra in Brussels have led her to perform in renowned venues in France and abroad under the baton of conductors such as Marin Alsop, Simone Young, Kirill Karabits, Michael Schonwandt and Alain Altinoglu.

Enjoying major international stages just as much as concerts in small venues, churches and open-air dance halls, she particularly cherishes the warmth and sense of community she shares with her audience after solo recitals or with her chamber music partners. She is regularly invited to give masterclasses in France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Born in 2002 to parents who were not musicians, she nevertheless took up music at a very early age. She learnt to read music at the same time as she learnt the alphabet, began playing the piano at the age of 6 and the harp at 7 with Elena Gorna in Italy, continuing her studies in Spain with Beatriz Millán and Zoraida Avila and at the CRR in Paris with Ghislaine Petit Volta. In 2020, she joined the class of Isabelle Moretti and Geneviève Létang at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honours. She is currently honing her skills there whilst studying for the Diplôme d’Artiste Interprète and pursuing a degree in applied mathematics at Paris-Dauphine University.

In 2021, aged 19, following her first prize at the Martine Géliot Competition, she recorded the CD “Bach to Paris”, featuring pieces by French and German composers whom she particularly admires.

Alexandra is a laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation and is supported by the Safran Foundation and Adami.