This experience (ARD competition) had a profound impact on her, above all she gained self-confidence: "I allow myself to explore much more in music now. I take more risks, that started in the competition, in this inspiring environment," she reports. That's when she realized that people would like to hear more of her music emotions. "And now I try out everything that comes into my head and see how it goes," she says.

(BR Klassik, Annekatrin Hentschel, 14/4/2024)

ARD Festival

Prize winners tour of chamber music concerts

Jacques Ibert's "Deux Interludes" were performed first and Alexandra Bidi already showed here how much the harp seemed to be her second self. She plucked the strings effortlessly and moved the various pedals with extraordinary ease, so that the audience didn't even notice when she aimed for the semitones and then presented them in the highest harmony and melody.

[...] it was easy to hear the lightness and elegance that Saint-Saëns probably meant from the harp. The playing of the two musicians also gave sufficient reason to assume that the two instruments were talking to each other in a loving, intimate dialog...

(Wasserburger Stimme, Christian Huber, 21/4/2024)

ARD Festival

Prize winners tour of chamber music concerts

...the harp produced lovely, delicate, light tones that seemed to float through the room.[...] All three instrumentalists played with a magical lightness and perfection that transported the listener into a dream world.

[...]The delicate magic of the composition (Fantasie op.124, St-Saëns) and the elegance and lightness of the performance were balm for the soul.

(Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, Georg Füchtner, 26/4/2024)

GINASTERA harp concerto

w/ Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim

Heavenly sounds and lots of rhythm

Badischen Philharmonie thrills the audience with Ginastera and Bruckner

...The audience was very enthusiastic about the piece and the performers, and so Alexandra Bidi had to play two inspiring encores.

(Pforzheimer Kurier, Christian Henrich, 12/3/2024)

Beyond space and time with Bruckner and Harp concerto

...the fabulous harpist Alexandra Bidi [...] masters her difficult instrument [...] with sensational perfection and demonstrates playing techniques that are largely new to the audience in the well-attended CCP.

The orchestra gives the 22-years-old plenty of space, which she knows how to use. The audience was completely thrilled and only dismissed the charming musician after two encores.

(Pforzheimer Zeitung, Dietmar Bastian, 12/3/2024)

Three classical prize winners and enormous joy of playing

[she was] playing the lucidly orchestrated work with enormous joy and technical mastery and was celebrated by the audience at the end in the well filled hall..

(Stuttgarter Zeitung, Frank Armbruster, 28/1/2024)

Rising stars in the classical music sky

Kerem Hasan, Alexandra Bidi and Joë Christophe are absolutely thrilling.

[...] Bidi duels with the five-person percussion combo [...] with an audibly combative demeanor. [...] (She) leads into the Latin American jazzy finale with a brillant, virtuoso cadenza.

(Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, Dietholf Zerweck, 28/1/2024)

GINASTERA harp concerto

w/ SWR Symphony Orchestra

Garde montante

...past literature for the harp is a must for her, but her affinity lies above all with the music of today. She defends with conviction not only the scores of Debussy, Ravel or Tailleferre, but also those of Ginastera [...], Jolivet[...], and more recently Attahir.

(Classica, Michel Le Naour, December 2023)

ARD competition

Temperament, depth and soulful singing

Alexandra Bidi [...] enlivened the Handel concerto with plenty of legato, purposeful runs, echo effects, great dynamic variety and joyful verve. In the Larghetto, her breathing phrasing and emphasis (or changes?) of secondary voices were convincing. In the Fantasia, she acted like a magical harp, full-toned and graceful at the same time, slightly mysterious with enticing bell tones, always in dialog with the violin, whose themes she took up and adapted for the harp: both inspire each other. She also gained something magical from the commissioned composition, producing glassy piano sounds in the treble and creating powerful string buzzing with a strong metal pin. Above all, however, she creates the impression of unity despite the disparate parts of the piece and thus makes a great impression.

(Klassik Heute, Rainer W. Janka, 4/9/2023)

Interview

Ouest France

Princess of the harp ... and maths

I love music and mathematics. [...] In both disciplines, I feel a constant need for research - for the right sound and interpretation in the case of music, and for ways of solving a problem in the case of mathematics.

(Ouest France, 6/10/2021)