Alexa Torres is a Latinx jazz violinist, composer, and ethnographic researcher based in Austin, TX, and New York City. Throughout her musical career, she has performed in the US, Latin America, and Europe and has had the privilege of sharing the stage with Grammy-winning artists such as Kurt Elling and Mon Laferte. Musically, she seeks to cultivate improvisational and compositional styles that are both historically and personally grounded, prioritizing contemplative melodies, rich harmonic textures, and atypical forms. Torres’s 2024 debut album In Situ has been played across international airwaves like NPR and featured in prestigious media outlets like Strings Magazine and All About Jazz.