Alexander Frey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alexander Frey
Occupation	Conductor
Date Of Birth	Oct 5, 1976(1976-10-05)
Age	48
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Libra

Alexander Frey Biography

Alexander Frey is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on October 5, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Since the 1990s, Frey has maintained a strong commitment to both contemporary music and the film music of Hollywood which has been evident in the many world and regional premieres he is given. At the 2009 “Hollywood in Vienna Festival” held in Vienna, Austria, Frey gave the first public live performance of John Williams’ music to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film Seven Years in Tibet when he played a piano transcription of the complete score to that movie. He also performed the world premieres of Max Steiner’s Wiener Lob and a large-scale piano transcription of David Arnold’s music for the film Independence Day in concert with Arnold in attendance. In Mexico, Frey conducted the Latin American premiere performances of both Bernard Herrmann’s music for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo and Franz Waxman’s music for the 1941 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He also gave the first public performance of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music for the 1944 film Between Two Worlds, as well as the European premiere of the Suite from Schindler’s List, composed and arranged by John Williams. In Barrie Gavin’s documentary film, Erich Wolfgang Korngold- Adventures of Wunderkind: A Portrait and Concert, Frey performs the first public hearing of Korngold’s second symphony, composed in Hollywood at the end of the composers life and exists only in piano score, in addition to playing several solo keyboard works and most of the background piano music.

From 1992 to 1996, he was Music Director of Germany’s most renowned theater, the Berliner Ensemble, founded by Bertolt Brecht, where he collaborated with the celebrated stage director Peter Zadek. Frey was the first American to hold a position at the Berliner Ensemble, as well as being the theater’s first non- German Music Director; his historic predecessors who held the same music directorship included the composers Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. While there, Zadek and Frey’s artistic collaboration made theater history by producing several revolutionary and innovative productions. They adapted Vittorio De Sica’s film Miracle in Milan (Miracolo e Milano) for the stage using the actual entire dialogue script from the film. Frey devised the idea of restoring the entire original film score and performing it live throughout the play using exactly the same music cues as in the film, marking the first time this technique was ever used. He repeated this method for a subsequent production in Austria of a stage version of the film Arsenic and Old Lace. For Miracle in Milan, Frey and the production were nominated for a Berlin Theater Critics’ Prize. In addition to directing the music for 7 other large productions at BE, Frey also produced and directed the Berliner Ensemble’s A Paul Dessau Evening, a multimedia retrospective of the musical and dramatic works of the theater’s music director of the 1950s.

Alexander Frey Net Worth

Alexander Frey is one of the richest Conductor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexander Frey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Frey studied piano for many years in Chicago as a protégé of the pianist, harpsichordist and teacher Gavin Williamson (1898–1989), one of the last direct links to 19th-century pianism, and who was a pupil of Arthur Schnabel, Wanda Landowska, and Ethel Leginska. His organ teachers in the Chicago area were Richard Webster and Edward Mondello. He received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees (both with honors) from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance where he studied organ with Robert Glasgow, conducting with Gustav Meier and composition with William Albright and William Bolcom.

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Alexander Frey’s recordings and DVD have received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (formerly known as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, one of Germany’s highest recording honors), ECHO Klassik Prize, Choice of the French Media Critics, Best Recording of the Year (Fi Magazine), Best Original Cast Recording of the Year-2005 (Borders Music), Favorite Record of the Year-2005 (ArkivMusic), the Bronze World Medal of the New York Festival, BBC Critics Choice, Record of the Month (MusicWeb, UK), Best Instrumental CD of the Month (Galaxie Magazine, Canada) and Best CD of the Month (Best New Classics). His recording of Korngold’s Between Two Worlds for piano and orchestra (on the Decca label) was listed by Gramophone Magazine as one of the 250 Greatest Recordings of All Time. June 2005 marked the release of a new CD of Frey conducting the world premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan, which Frey restored from the composer’s manuscripts, including almost an hour of music previously unheard. This historic recording features Broadway star Linda Eder in the role of Wendy, and Daniel Narducci singing the role of Captain Hook. The CD reached #8 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart®, becoming the third highest selling musical theater recording during the weeks following its release, making Frey a Billboard® Top 10 Artist as both conductor and pianist. It also became the best selling recording of Koch International Classics (now called Entertainment One), the record company which produced it. Frey’s CD of the complete solo piano music of Leonard Bernstein (also on Koch International Classics) is considered to be the definitive performance of that music His ongoing project is recording the complete piano works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Koch International Classics) and he is regarded as the leading interpreter of Korngold’s keyboard music. Alexander Frey’s recordings are on the Koch International Classics (Entertainment One), Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, RCA Red Seal and Bach Guild labels.

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Alexander Ranked on the list of most popular Conductor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Alexander Frey celebrates birthday on October 5 of every year.

Frey was Musical Advisor to the Hollywood in Vienna Festival from 2007–2013.