About Piano Buds in a Pod

Alexandra Minoza, founder of Piano Buds in a Pod, is a professional pianist, a Steinway Teacher & Educational Partner, and holds a Master of Music in Advanced Performance (Piano) from the Royal College of Music in London, where she was awarded the Polani Award scholarship, a Bachelor of Music in Performance (Piano) from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in the National University of Singapore, where she was awarded a full-scholarship sponsored by Singtel, and a High School Diploma from the Philippine High School for the Arts as a government scholar. She taught early-childhood music education, Suzuki Piano Method, and prepared students for ABRSM examination and Trinity College London examinations in Singapore and at KM Music Conservatory, whose founder is Grammy award-winner music producer and music composer A.R. Rahman in Chennai, India. 

Her 2023-2024 concert engagements included performances with Singaporean violinist Becket Chua, who performed Nolck's Hungarian Dance in Carnegie Hall; Keerthana Sriram, who performed Mozart's Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro at the American Virtuoso International Music Competition and Schubert's Lachen und Weinen at the American Protégé International Music Competition in Carnegie Hall; Prarthana Sriram, who performed Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball at the American Protégé International Music Competition in Carnegie Hall; and Dhanya Mayuran, who performed Christina Perri's A Thousand Years at the American Protégé International Music Competition winners' recital in Carnegie Hall. Additionally, she performed a musical story featuring Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf arranged for one narrator, two violins, one viola, and one piano at Earth & Me in Astoria, Queens. She also gave a violin and piano recital, performing Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 8, Bruch's Violin Concerto Op. 26, Dvorak-Kreisler's Slavonic Fantasia in B minor, and Paganini's Cantabile. She currently lives in New York City.