With Mr. Benjamin Zander

With Mr. Jorma Panula

With Mr. Pierre Boulez

With Mr. Raffi Armenian


With Mr. Nurhan Arman

With Dr. Friedrich Gehmacher 
President of the Mozarteum

Kristian Alexander has conducted several professional instrumental and vocal ensembles, such as the Metropolitain Orchestra (Montreal, Canada), the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (Windsor, Canada), the Oakville Chamber Orchestra (Oakville, Canada), the Vaughan Symphony Orchestra (Toronto, Canada), the Royal Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra (Toronto, Canada), the Internationale Bach-Collegium and Gächinger Kantorei (Stuttgart, Germany), the "Mozarteum" Symphony orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria). In 2006 he was appointed Chair of the Conductors Guild 2007 International Conference. In 2006 as well he was invited by the Conductors Guild to moderate in New York City a highly acclaimed panel with conductors from The Juilliard School, The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors, and The Eastman School of Music. In 2005 he was also appointed Music director of the International Music Academy (Toronto, Canada). In January 2004 Kristian Alexander was invited as Music director of Vaughan Symphony Orchestra (Toronto). The same year he was also appointed professor (string instruments) at the Canadian Conservatory for Music and Art (Toronto, Ontario). In 2004 as well he was recruited by AMS Inc. as a consultant for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 he accepted the position of Principal examiner (Music) of the world largest private schools International Baccalaureate Organization (London, England). In addition, as recognition of his musicianship he was also appointed member of the Board of the Directors of the Conductors Guild of America (Chicago, IL). He is also director on the Board of the Southern Ontario Music Chamber Institute. 

Kristian Alexander has worked with Maestri Gustav Meier (Ann Arbor, Santa Cruz), Marin Alsop (Santa Cruz), Helmuth Rilling (Stuttgart), John Morris Russell (Windsor), Nurhan Arman (Toronto), David Agler (Montreal), Michael Milkoff (Sofia). He has recorded several live concerts for the Internationale Bachakademie, the National Radio Broadcast Company, and the National Television of Bulgaria. He is affiliated with professional associations in USA, Canada, Germany, and Bulgaria.

He speaks English, French, Russian, and Bulgarian and has extensive working knowledge in Italian, German, Czech, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. In addition to master degrees in conducting and music history, Mr. Alexander holds various degrees in anthropology, psychology, theology, computer science, and arts management from academies and universities in Toronto, Montreal, Stuttgart, Sofia, and Plovdiv.

After a successful contract as an assistant orchestra and choir conductor at the Opéra de Montréal, Mr. Alexander was invited to lead the Music department at Weldon Park Academy in London (Canada). He was appointed as a Music director, orchestra and choir conductor, as well as a professor. As an active member of the arts community, Mr. Alexander was also appointed as a director in the Board of directors at the London Arts Council (1999-2001). Since 2001 he has been invited to conduct the string orchestra and to teach at the International Bilingual School of Toronto.

In 1997 Mr. Alexander was invited as assistant orchestra and choir conductor for several presentations of the opera Jenufa (L. Janácek) at the Opéra de Montréal. The performance was remarkable and has been noted by the music critics as “one of the best productions in the history of the Opera of Montreal." (Robert Markow, Le Magazine de la Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2000).

In 1996 Mr. Alexander had been invited by the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal over 100 times to coach soloists of the Opéra de Montréal language, interpretation and singing. At the same time he was a voice consultant for several internationally reputable actors and actresses, such as Mrs. Louise Marleau, Mr. Marc Béland, Mr. Pierre Collins.

In 1995 Kristian Alexander was invited as an Assistant opera conductor at the Department of musical and stage arts of the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), where he completed one season on “Le Nozze di Figaro”. As a professor of Psychology of music at the same university, he explored different ways of dealing with psychological and emotional pre-performance distress.

In 1994-1995 he was invited by Maestro Helmuth Rilling at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart to conduct several concerts with the highly reputable Internationale Bach-Collegium and the Gächinger Kantorei in the Lieder Halle - Kultur und Congress Centrum Baden-Würtemberg in Stuttgart. In 1995 the Internationale Stiftung “Mozarteum” (Salzburg) invited Mr. Alexander to receive a special award of the Foundation as recognition of his conducting and leadership.

In 1992 Mr. Alexander led the “Mozarteum” symphony orchestra, the National Radio Broadcast Choir, the National Philharmonic Choir, and soloists of the National Opera and produced several recordings of live concerts of Mozart’s works for the National Radio and the National Television of Bulgaria.

In 1990 he founded, conducted and managed the “Mozarteum” symphony orchestra in Sofia. The orchestra was created to promote early and rarely presented works of W.A. Mozart and was supported by the Government of Austria, the Government of Switzerland, the Vatican, and the “Open Society” Foundation (New York).

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