“…[their] saxophone sound is equally forceful and undulating. At times, it has an abrasive character that adds strength to sinuous and lengthy phrases, sometimes filled with anger.”  Jacques Prouvost

alejandra borzyk is a Spanish-Belgian saxophone player, composer, performer and writer

Since 2022 they leads their band "bodies", selected in 2023 as the Belgian laureate of the French support program "Propulsion". They released two EPs independently: "bodies" (2023) and "fluidos" (2024); and performed at the Brussels Jazz Weekend two consecutive years and in notorious venues like Jazz Station, Ancienne Belgique or Neimenster (LU). They are currently preparing the release of their next album.

They are also part of other Brussels based projects (Lara Humbert "I'm not done cooking"), French-American co-production “PASSIO”, and carries a solo project, performance through which they explore movement, breath art and saxophone extended techniques.

Born in Leuven but raised in Torrelodones (Spain), they studied classical piano and saxophone as a kid, and started performing in 2015 alongside Madrid based bands of a large stylistic diversity (latin, reggae, funk, hip-hop, song-writers, pop, rock). Meanwhile, they studied composition with Ramón Paús, with whom they discovered as well the universes of jazz and improvised music. They moved to Brussels in 2017 to continue their education at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, where they graduated under cum laude in 2023, and were under the mentorship of musicians such as Jeroen van Herzeele, John Ruocco, Stéphane Galland and Diederik Wissels. 

2025 announces some shifts in their path: they start collaborating in “Sound of Brussels Orchestra”, a collective creation under the direction of Fabrizio Cassol and Adèle Viret, which stands in the crossing point of the cultural diversity the city gathers.

In 2024, they were laureate of the program "Women in jazz" led by drummer Anne Paceo, and toured alongside the French trip hop band Chinese Man, with whom they performed in legendary venues such as Olympia in Paris.

pic credits Ola Gracjasz