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Michael Alexander
Director
of Orchestras
Michael Alexander is the Orchestra Director at Kennesaw State University and serves as the Music Director of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestras. Previously he has also served as Music Director of the Green Bay Youth Symphony Orchestras and as the Orchestra Director at Ripon College. Active as a guest conductor, he has conducted in Europe, Australia and at various places in the United States, including a subscription performance with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra in 2002, the Maikop Symphony Orchestra and the Novgorod String Orchestra in Russia, the Bacau Philharmonic in Romania and the Catania Music Festival in Italy in 2003. In the summer of 2004 and 2009, he served as Music Director for the Madison Savoyards Opera Company and in 2007 as guest conductor of the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as a guest conductor four times with the Summer Music Clinic Orchestra at the University of Wisconsin and with the 2003-2006 Maud-Powell Music Festival Orchestra in LaSalle, IL.
In the summer of 2003, Dr. Alexander completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in orchestral conducting. While at UW, he studied with David E. Becker and served as an Assistant Conductor with the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and UW Opera. Previously he has served on the faculties at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dedicated to music education, for two years, Dr. Alexander conducted the Orchestra at Verona Area High School outside of Madison, Wisconsin; served on the artistic staff of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra; and has contributed articles to the Teaching Music Through Performance book series. He has conducted several District Honor Orchestras and under his direction the KSU Orchestra has performed at the 2009 Georgia Music Educators Association Annual In-Service and will host and perform at the 2010 College Orchestra Directors Association National Conference.
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