Alicia Randisi-Hooker

Cello

Alicia Randisi-Hooker holds a Master of Music degree in cello performance from
Temple University in Philadelphia PA, and a Bachelor of Music in performance
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her principal teachers were Mary
Fraley, Lev Aronson, Deborah Reeder, Hans Jorgen-Jensen, Laszlo Varga, and
Valentin Erbin of the Alban Berg Quartet, with whom she studied chamber music
in Germany.
Alicia has performed extensively in both the United States and Europe. She
has been a member of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Oak Ridge
Symphony, the Shreveport Symphony, the Philly Pops, and many other orchestras
in the Philadelphia area. As a member of Trillium Piano Trio, she haa performed
regularly in and around her region and across the United States.
She presently enjoys a richly varied career teaching students aged five through
sixty -five, both in her private studio and as an adjunct instructor at Maryville
College. Her students have been the recipients of many prizes, scholarships, and
competitions, including the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition,
and the Knoxville Symphony’s Youth Concerto Competition