Conductor
Alexander Briger is one of Australia’s pre-eminent conductors and was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for ‘services to music as a leading conductor’. He is considered a specialist in the works of Janáček, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven.
Alexander has worked with Maestros Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Muti and major international orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Ensemble InterContemporain, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum, Malaysian Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and every major Australian symphony orchestra.
He has performed with soloists including Alfred Brendel, Maria Joao Pires and Murray Perahia, Paul Lewis, Kirill Gerstein, Akiko Suwanai and Julia Fisher.
Alexander has conducted for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Théâtre du Châtelet, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di San Carlo Opera, Naples, Berlin Komischeoper, Canadian Opera Company and Opera Australia among others.
In 2010, he founded the Australian World Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director and Chief Conductor.