Alexa Renger is a German violinist, violin teacher and painter with a focus on contemporary music and interdisciplinary improvisation. She studied violin and instrumental pedagogy with Kolja Blacher, Ulrich Mahlert, Stefan Prey and others, painting with R. Lemcke, Peter Müller and others, as well as orchestral and chamber music with Uwe-Martin Haiberg and Axel Gerhardt at the Berlin University of the Arts. She also studied free painting with XYZ at the same university. After graduating, she formed the quartet KLAR I VIER TETES with Ernst Surberg (piano), Martin Seemann (vc) and Stefan Schultz (clarinet), which was dedicated to the performance of new music, and took up a teaching position at the district music school in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in 1998. In 2008, she founded the trio XelmYa with Sylvia Hinz (recorders) and Marika Gejrot (vc.), of which she was a member until 2021. Since then, composers from all over the world have written new works especially for XelmYa, which have been premiered in Germany and many other countries. The trio has also sought to collaborate with dancers, visual artists and other musicians. Since 2020, Alexa Renger has realised interdisciplinary projects for solo violin, primarily with visual artists such as Carola Czempik in Berlin and Christiane Wartenberg in Oderbruch. Alexa Renger has performed at festivals in Colombia, Mexico, the USA and Iran as well as in many European countries. She has been playing in the Kairos Quartet since September 2022.
