About
Alexander started his singing career as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral from 2007, being made head chorister in 2011 and singing on tours, recordings, broadcasts, and televised services. He attended Ampleforth College until 2017, when he started a music degree at the University of Manchester. Having graduated, he worked as a lay clerk at St John’s College Choir Cambridge for two years, after which he moved back to London to embark on a freelance career as a choral singer and soloist.
Alexander has since sung for world renowned choirs such as Tenebrae, Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey Choirs, performing in high profile events such as the coronation of King Charles III. As a soloist, he has performed on recorded projects for Westminster Cathedral Choir and St John’s College Choir, along with step out solos at venues such as the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, and more recently Greyfriars Kirk and The Duke’s Hall in a performance of Purcell’s ‘Hail! Bright Cecelia’ with members of the Dunedin Consort conducted by John Butt. He has also sung roles in Opera, such as La Traviata, La Bohème, L’Elisir d’Amore, and in 2022, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.
In 2020, he co-founded Coro Spezzato, a choir with aims to promote new composers and give a platform to young professional singers. Since September 2024, Alexander has been studying for a Masters in vocal performance at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won First Prize in the 2025 Schumann Lieder Competition.
Alexander’s composing started from a young age, but took off after a Mass setting based on the plainsong Mass XIII was taken on tour in Italy by the Ampleforth Singers. He continued to compose at school, writing and performing a Requiem Mass for choir and strings among other works. Whilst in Manchester he studied composition under Camden Reeves and, in 2020, had his choral work ‘Wash Me Throughly’ broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and sung by Coro Spezzato, a choir co-founded by Alexander. ‘O Vos Omnes’, a later commission was also picked up by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in 2021. Whilst a lay clerk at John’s Cambridge, Alexander enjoyed writing arrangements for acapella group The Gents of St John’s, and received a commission from Andrew Nethsingha to write a piece for the college choir – ‘Salvator Mundi, Domine’, which was premiered in May 2021 and since been recorded for release in the summer of 2023. In 2023 Alexander began a strong relationship with Continuum Choir under the direction of Harry Guthrie. He has already had two commissions from the choir, Caeli Ennarant and Reges Tharsis, the former premiered in 2023 and the latter for Christmas 2024.
Alexander is now working as a freelance musician based in London, and is enjoying his current position as composer in residence for Fulham Camerata.