Alyssa Campbell is an American baroque violinist and violist based in New York City and The Hague, Netherlands. As a musician, she is deeply committed to performance practice from the 16th to 19th centuries, and aims to engage in a well-rounded and open-minded approach to music making informed by research. Alyssa has played both violin and viola with ensembles across the United States and Europe, including Les Arts Florissants, The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Orchestra of the 18th-Century, Juilliard415, The American Classical Orchestra, Kollective366, and ARTEK Early Music. She has worked with prominent conductors including Maasaki Suzuki, William Christie, Richard Egarr, Jakob Lehmann, Lawrence Cummings, and Laurence Equilbey, and has been heard at festivals such as Tanglewood, The BBC Proms, Dans de Jardins de William Christie, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, Music Before 1800, Gotham Early Music Scene, and Bremen Musikfest. Additionally, Alyssa is a founding member of The Fooles, a 17th-century string band based that presents research-informed performances of music from the early modern period. In 2023, The Fooles were selected for Early Music America’s Emerging Artist Showcase, and have since been heard in NYC, Boston, and on WXQR’s Young Artist Showcase.
Alyssa holds a Masters Degree in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan. In 2023, she was selected as the winner of Early Music America’s Margriet Tindemans Early Strings Scholarship, which allowed her to move to The Netherlands where she received an Artist Certificate from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2024. Her primary teachers include Enrico Gatti, Kati Debretzeni, Rachel Podger, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Cynthia Roberts.