Alex Rose is an American singer-songwriter and recent graduate of the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She is a seventh-generation Texan and fourth-generation Longhorn. 🤘

In Fall 2020, Alex Rose entered The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin to pursue a master’s degree in public policy. Rose's research as a Brumley NextGen Fellow with the Strauss Center sat at the intersection of cyber security, journalism and world affairs. She was particularly interested in national security studies as it dovetails with the media, narrative and storytelling. For her capstone project she released a podcast called “A Lot of Good People Told Me” which explores the effects of disinformation on the American public. She is grateful for the support of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law in this endeavor. A policy generalist, she has enjoyed recent internships with the U.S. Department of State’s intelligence bureau (INR/AO) and the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas District 10. In 2022, she worked full-time with the Texas House of Representatives in Texas District 26 before transitioning into a government and public affairs role for an energy infrastructure company in downtown Houston, Texas.

Canyon Counterpoint is Alex Rose’s musical moniker. Through this music practice, Rose has cut a wide geographical swath calling Los Angeles, Seattle, Brooklyn and Austin home in different chapters, releasing music under her own name since 2016. 

In 2019, she renamed her project Canyon Counterpoint. Following this tabula rasa, she has steadily self-released a stream of sonically dynamic and varied singles, including “Giant” - a song about love and loss: an off-Hollywood romance written in Marfa, TX and her most recent quarantine-era single “One Week in a Life,” a song about the ephemerality of it all against a backdrop of psychedelic art and a fire-following wildflower bloom. 

At the center of a swirl of piano, guitar, woodwind arrangements, synthesizers and drums is the core instrument of her music practice: her voice. Rose spins sung stories using poetry, harmony and chorus. Artistically she is interested in creating new ways to sing and express through a feminist perspective, in turn inspiring others to voice their own truths. 

Rose has trained at the University of Washington in Seattle, Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre and Berg Studios in Los Angeles. She has performed extensively in LA’s contemporary art world in support of performance artist Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs and Community Chorus with large-scale shows at the Getty Center, Hammer Museum and The Broad. As an actor, Rose performed the role of “Cupcake” in Ry Rocklen’s 2019 musical Food Group: The Body Palms. She also produced writer-director Ariel McCleese’s debut short film Daughters of Wolbachia. 

Presently, Alex Rose lives in Houston, Texas where she works in government and public affairs.

You can find her music and podcast on Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and Apple Music. And she begrudgingly also keeps her LinkedIn updated. 😇