Alexander Gordon

Alexander Gordon has achieved recognition as a soloist, conductor, chamber musician and teacher. He has been performing as a solo violist since the age of fifteen, appearing with orchestras across Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia, and has performed as a soloist with Neeme Jarvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Leif Segerstam and Alexander Vedernikov. At the age of 23 he was appointed Principal Viola of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2012 he left to dedicate himself entirely to his career as soloist, conductor, chamber musician and teacher.

Born in 1978 into a family of musicians, he attended the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow, where he studied with Elena Ozol. He continued his education with Michael Kugel in the Hoogeschool, Maastricht and with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler, Berlin.

He is Principal Conductor of the International New Symphony Orchestra (INSO) Lviv, and has appeared as conductor and soloist with the Lappeenranta Orchestra, and the Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä. He has conducted the Bulgarian National Radio-Symphony Orchestra, the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker at the Rijeka Opera Theatre, Croatia. He has toured Europe and made recordings on Toccata Classics with INSO Lviv.

He won first prize at the ‘Classical Legacy’ International Competition, Moscow, the Elise Meyer competition, Hamburg, and at the Eighth Brahms Competition, Poertschach. As a chamber musician he has performed in the world’s most prestigious venues with partners such as Peter Donohoe, Patrick Gallois, Itamar Golan, Natalia Gutman, Misha Maisky. Gerhard Schulz and Dmitri Sitkovetsky. His recordings as a violist have appeared on the Chandos, LPO Live, Navis Classics and Naxos and Toccata Classics labels.

Alexander Gordon has held professorships at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Vienna Konservatorium. He is currently professor at the Haute École de Musique, Lausanne, and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne.