Since graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, Alex has carved out a career as a Musical Director and Composer, specialising in creating live music for the theatre.  In recent years he has composed for five plays at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and made music for productions at Young Vic, Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre Studio, London's West End, and many regional theatres.  He has co-written three musicals which have toured in the UK, Europe and the Far East, and has contributed to 15 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, for which he has twice been nominated for Total Theatre Awards. He has also undertaken commissions for BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 TV,  SkyArts, as well as countless pieces for smaller film projects and chamber ensembles. Alex's choral compositions have been short listed for the John Armitage Memorial Prize, and the St Paul's Composition Prize.