Aaliyah Booker

Background

About Aaliyah Booker

Aaliyah Booker is an award-winning violinist and scholar from McLean, Virginia. Booker made her solo debut with the McLean Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015 performing Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. She has since performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Washington Monument and Sheldonian Theatre. Booker graduated summa cum laude from The Hartt School, University of Hartford in 2019. That year, Booker was awarded the John G. Martin Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding academic achievement and went on to pursue further study at the University of Oxford. She completed her MPhil in Music Performance with a distinction from the University of Oxford in 2021. Booker’s research focused on representation and equality in symphony orchestras. She was a key researcher in the Diversity and the British String Quartet project, which was awarded a grant from the University of Oxford’s Humanities Cultural Programme. She worked as a Strings Fellow at the Junior Academy, The Royal Academy of Music and currently works at The Yehudi Menuhin School as a Junior Menuhins Tutor. She performs with various ensembles in the UK. Booker currently plays on a Jules Grandjon violin on loan from The Royal Society of Musicians.