Alexander Shelley

Alexander Shelley ( born October 8, 1979 in London ) is a British conductor and cellist. Since September 2009 he has been chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Life

Shelley was born into a musical family, his father is the conductor and pianist Howard Shelley, his mother, the pianist Hilary Macnamara. He studied cello at the Royal College of Music in London and moved to the Robert - Schumann-Hochschule in Dusseldorf in 1998. There he continued his studies with instrument Goritzki and also studied conducting with Thomas Gabrisch. He also attended master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot and a compositional master class of George Crumb.

In 2001, Shelley founded in Dusseldorf Chamber Orchestra Schumann Camerata. Together with this ensemble, which he heads today, he called 2005, tailored to young audiences concert series 440Hz to life. A similar project of the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen called laboratory of the future he has been an artistic director.

As guest conductor, Shelley worked in Germany, the UK, Italy, France, Holland, Scandinavia, North America, South America, Australia and Asia with a variety of orchestras.

In November 2008, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra invoked him as the successor to Bernhard Gueller as its new chief conductor. His inaugural concert he conducted on January 5, 2010. His original four -year contract he extended in 2011 to early 2017.

Awards

• Winner of the Leeds Conductors Competition in 2005