Hazzan Alexander began her musical life as an instrumentalist almost 30 years ago. When she was in her early twenties, she decided to forego a promising career as an orchestral cellist to pursue the sacred calling of the cantorate, which her mentor Hazzan Rabbi Shlomo Shuster has aptly characterized as "leading our people up the mountain of prayer."

A “committed Conservative Jew”, Hazzan Alexander is a member of the Cantor’s Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A past president of the Chicago Milwaukee Association for Synagogue Music, Hazzan Alexander currently serves as Secretary for CMASM, in addition to serving as Secretary-Treasurer for the Midwest Regional chapter of the Cantors Assembly.

Congregations Hazzan Alexander has served include Anshe Tikvah; Ezra Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation; and Mikdash El Hagro Hebrew Congregation. She is also involved in the greater Jewish community, from lecturing for Hadassah groups to davening with nursing home residents to leading community sedarim. In 2003, Hazzan Alexander was named a “Jewish Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Jewish News.

In addition to her cantorial pursuits, Hazzan Alexander is still a frequent recitalist, orchestral performer, and chamber musician. World music is one of Hazzan Alexander’s passions, and in that vein she is the cellist for T.I.M.E., Lingua Musica, and StringFusion. Lingua Musica recently released their second CD, One World, One Language. She is also very involved with modern music, performing over 60 world premieres to date, including several works written specifically for her. In addition to the violoncello, she also performs on the violoncello piccolo and the oud.

Orchestras she has soloed with include the Chicago String Ensemble, the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, the DePaul University Chamber Orchestra, the North Shore Youth Orchestra, the Lake Shore Symphony, and many others. She was the featured soloist when the Wheaton Symphony performed Strauss’ Don Quixote. Hazzan Alexander has been presented in recital by WFMT’s “Live from Studio One”, the MacDowell Arts Society, the Spanish Consulate, the Beck Institute for the Arts, the Chicago Area Music Teachers Association, the Union League Club, the North Shore MacDowell Society, the Chicago Musical Arts Club, and other organizations too numerous to mention. She was featured at the Chicago Cultural Center in their “Every Day’s a Birthday” series, playing her own transcriptions of the music of Sarasate, and appeared again at the Cultural Center as the featured artist for “Classical Cabaret”.