Biography
Alex Robinson is an experienced conductor and harpsichordist with a first-class Music degree (MusB) from the University of Manchester and a distinction level MMus in Performance (Conducting) from the Royal Northern College of Music. He studied under Mark Heron, Justin Doyle, and Clark Rundell.
He is currently the music director of Haffner Orchestra, Furness Bach Choir, Amaretti Chamber Orchestra and Nottingham Youth Orchestra, and is the Artistic Director of Music for Everyone in Nottingham. Alex has worked with a number of orchestras and opera companies in the UK and internationally, including the BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé, Northern Chamber Orchestra, English Touring Opera, Heritage Opera, Radius Opera, Spokane Symphony, Prague Philharmomia, Hradec Kravlove Philharmonic, Moravian Symphony Orchestra, Eboracum Baroque, Psappha, House of Bedlam and Ensemble Laus Deo.
He has worked as an assistant conductor to Sir Mark Elder, Juanjo Mena, James Lowe, Clark Rundell, Gerry Cornelius, Nicolas Collon, Jonathan Peter Kenny, Vassily Petrenko and Sir Andrew Davies.
Alex regularly works with many international soloists including Martin Roscoe, Milan Al-Ashab, Inon Barnatan, Sophie Rosa, Savva Zverev, April Koyejo-Audiger, Simon Walfisch, and many more. Recently he conducted at Snape Maltings for the 75th Aldeburgh Festival with House of Bedlam, and assisted English Touring Opera with Judith Weir's 'Blond Eckbert'.
He has also recorded an album of continuo improvisations on harpsichord, conducted the premiere of Samson Young's 'One of Two stories or Both' for Manchester International Festival, worked as repetiteur for several operas including Handel's Tamerlano, Ottone, Agrippina and Silla, and worked as assistant conductor for the premiere of Alan Williams' 'The Arsonists' opera in a Yorkshire accent with the BBC Philharmonic.
