Alexandra Rappitsch studied with W. Klasinc in Graz and with M. Frischenschlager and R. Küchl in Vienna. She completed her studies with a Master of Music degree in New York. While studying in New York, where she focused on chamber music with F. Galimir and Joel Smirnoff, she shifted her focus to pedagogy, inspired by Lewis Kaplan, director of the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School of Music. Since 1991, she has been teaching in Austria and has developed classes for gifted students in Styria and at the conservatory in Feldkirch, and has also been involved in developing programs to promote gifted students in the province of Lower Austria.

Well over 100 first prize winners of national and international competitions have taken her students to concerts in New York, Toronto, Venice, Hanover, Chur, Budapest, Salzburg, Graz, and Vienna. Many of her students now hold top positions in the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and other leading orchestras. Her teaching is characterized by the finest technical refinement of musical and artistic expression. She has lectured, served as a juror, and given presentations in all provinces of Austria, Germany, South Tyrol, and Switzerland.