Alexina Louie

Alexina Diane Louie, OC OOnt FRSC (born July 30, 1949) is a Canadian composer. She is of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.

Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an ARCT in Piano Performance at the age of 17, studying with Jean Lyons at the Jean Lyons School of Music in Vancouver. She received a Bachelor of Music in Music History from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and a Master of Arts in Composition from the University of California, San Diego in 1974. She taught piano, theory and electronic composition in the Greater Los Angeles Area until 1980. Since then she has lived in Toronto.

Louie has composed for various instrumental and vocal combinations in virtually every major genre. One of her earliest compositions, completed in 1972, is an electronic piece for 4-channel tape entitled Molly. Her object in this composition, based on the last segment of James Joyce's novel Ulysses was to make an electronic composition sound "human". Her piano compositions include Scenes from a Jade Terrace, Distant Memories (dedicated to Jean Lyons) and I Leap Through the Sky With Stars for solo piano, Dragon Bells for prepared piano and pre-recorded prepared piano, and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (which was commissioned by the CBC).

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