 A year later, she also got into the Junior Jazz course at The Royal Academy of Music.Ridout won the jazz award for BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, where she competed against her brother Tom and three other jazz musicians.Ridout leads her own band, "The Alexandra Ridout Quintet", and is also a member of "The Ridouts", a family band with her brother Tom (saxophone), father Mark (guitar), Tristan Mailliot (drums), and Flo Moore (bass).