Flutist Alexa Still has been active in both her native country and the U.S., where she was trained at the graduate level. Still is also a prominent educator and is a member of the faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory.
Still was born in New Zealand in 1962. She took up the flute at eight, expressing a desire at first to play the saxophone but having her father veto the idea. Still attended the University of Auckland, earning her bachelor's degree in 1983. She then traveled to the U.S. for graduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where her principal t...