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Alex Robinson, Vocal Jazz

  • Alex in a pink jacket

    B.M., University of Miami
    M.M., University of Miami

    Email Professor Robinson at arobinson62@mtsac.edu 

  • Alex Robinson is a vocalist, pianist, composer, arranger, and music educator. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Studio Music and Jazz with a concentration in Vocal Performance from the University of Miami.
     
    In addition to her work at Mt, SAC, Alex is an instructor and vocal jazz ensemble director at Chapman University. She also maintains her own private studio. With a keen interest in the connection between mental health and vocal function, she is passionate about helping her students develop a healthy, joyful relationship with their craft.
     
    Alex performs throughout Southern California with her own project, as a guest artist, and as a choral artist in professional choirs Tonality and Choral Arts Initiative. She has been featured at the Festival of Arts (Laguna Beach, CA), Stanford Jazz Festival (Stanford, CA), and Jazz Roots at the Adrienne Arsht Center (Miami, FL). Her debut album I Really Oughta Tell You, featuring her arrangements as well as original music, was released in January of 2026. The project charted in the top 50 on JazzWeek in its first month of radio play.
     
    In 2022, Alex was an inaugural cast member of Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, the Disney Wish. During her time working for The Walt Disney Company, she curated solo piano/vocal sets as well as performances with a full rhythm section in a variety of genres. She was a featured performer in two all-new stage productions, Victrophonics and Pirate’s Rockin’ Parlay Party, which included musicians performing live to fireworks for the first time in DCL history.
     
    Off the stage, Alex’s credits as a session vocalist include background vocals for Carole King, and choral singing on composer Carla Patullo’s GRAMMY-winning album So She Howls. Her work as a vocal arranger has been featured at the New York Voices’ annual vocal jazz camp, and in Kerry Marsh’s Independent Arrangers' Reading Session for the Jazz Education Network.

    Courses: MUS160: Individual Instruction (Jazz Voice), MUS20A: Elementary Voice (Jazz), MUS20B: Intermediate Voice (Jazz)