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Lexi Vollero is primarily a multi-instrumental performer, songwriter, arranger, and music technologist based in New York City.

An emerging artist with performance experience in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, her lush vocal and evocative songwriting combine to create a fresh soul-pop sound influenced by her passion for R&B and upbringing as a jazz and classical musician. Whether performing with a live band, Ableton rig, or solo self-accompanying, her nuanced explorations of life and music shine as seamless and sincere. She captivates and connects with listeners through her debut EP "growing pains", set for release February 2024. She experiments in her performance with piano, viola, and guitar, as well as the addition of original lyrics in Portuguese.

Her ultimate goal is record and perform her original music, as well as collaborate in commercial and theatrical writing rooms. She is especially passionate about collaboration, accessibility, and empowering others.

Additionally, she is currently co-writing, -arranging, and -orchestrating “A Great Day in Harlem”: an original musical with Dionne Hendricks. She currently works on Broadway shows (“My Son’s A Queen But What Can You Do?”, “How To Dance In Ohio”, “Harmony”) and Off-Broadway shows as an Ableton programming assistant and music assistant, composer’s assistant.

She also enjoys work in the musical theatre industry as an copyist, orchestrator, vocal designer, and vocal coach. She is passionate about new work on readings and rehearsal processes for various musical theater productions in-development. In the recent months, she has worked with KGM Theatrical, 5th Avenue Theatre, and freelance work with composers with work at 54 Below, Lincoln Center’s NYPL for Performing Arts, and more (see my resumes for more details). She is partnered with A3 Artist Agency as a composer, arranger, and programmer.

Lexi holds a Master's from BerkleeNYC (housed in Power Station Studios) in Creative Media and Technology (‘22) and was awarded a Post Master’s Fellowship of Admissions and Communications (‘23) the following year. She spent her fellowship cultivating her sound through studying music tech, songwriting, production, mixing, and technology, and her one-year Master’s concentrating on Writing and Design for Musical Theatre – including composition, orchestration, lyric-writing, bookwriting, demo-making, arranging, engineering, and more.

Prior to Berklee, she graduated from Northwestern University in June 2020 with a double-major in Journalism and Music and a minor in Spanish. Her musical studies were concentrated in a combination of music theater development and jazz studies. There, she was a writer and orchestrator for the famed Waa-Mu Show: an original music fully written and produced by students each school year. She was also the co-music director, arranger and vocalist for Tempo Tantrum a cappella and served with international Christian ministry Athletes in Action as a former member and spiritual team leader of Northwestern’s Varsity Cheerleading Team. She is continually investing in her ministry and worship music.

In her composing and songwriting, Lexi is especially influenced by R&B, soul and groove-based music. She draws inspiration from a wide variety of styles and the study of jazz theory and improvisation. Along with her passion for writing words and music, she excels with vocal, string, and big band writing and hopes to weave her multidisciplinary work into bold storytelling.

Lexi’s primary instrument is voice and has studied jazz, pop, soul, classical, music theater and operatic vocal styles. Additionally, she has studied classical viola since she was nine years old and has played multiple solo recitals, chamber music festivals, orchestral and symphonic ensembles, and music theater pits. She is continuing to branch out to a number of strings including violin, guitar, mandolin, and ukulele.

Her study of music is enriched by her work as a music journalist. She hopes to find opportunities to keep reporting compelling stories as a music journalist and empower other musicians to self-promote through her digital content strategy expertise, as well as non-profit work.

She uses her platform to hold space for women and nonbinary people in musical theatre music with Maestra Music and in music technology with We Are Moving the Needle and She Knows Tech as a volunteer.

She served as the Editor-in-Chief, editor and writer for Scene+Heard, Northwestern’s premiere arts and culture publication. Additionally, she and has held formative internships at Entertainment Weekly and Snap Inc. She has a diverse background in all forms of entertainment reporting, including sports reporting, across digital, editorial, audio and visual mediums. She is also passionate about bilingual journalism, with experience writing and reporting in Spanish, and enjoys using her training in photography, graphic design and marketing whenever she can.