Diary of a Young Cellist

Age 9 and frustrated…golden retriever, Kobi, lulled to sleep

Brevard Music Festival, Summer 2024 (Brevard, North Carolina), playing “Sophie” (1927 Giuseppe Pedrazzini, Cremona, Italy), a gift from his father’s clinic patient

Age 15 multi-tasking with Soba, the attention-seeking Great Pyrenees/Golden Retriever

Alachua County Youth Orchestra May Concert 2025, Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531 (University of Florida Music Auditorium, Gainesville, Florida) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCiWok7nPg

Dorothy Reeves String Competition, Award Performance (April 27, 2025), Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (First Movement)

Successfully auditioned to become the Principal Cellist for the New England Conservatory Summer Orchestra Institute (SOI), student-in-residence June 6-19, 2025

Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations,SOI Concert 1, July 12, 2025 (Variation XII Cello Solo at 45:20 on Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-WhPemLLkQ)

Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, SOI Concert 2, July 19, 2025 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrik4c1_x8)

In-residence student at Harvard University Pre-Collegiate Summer School, July 20-August 1, 2025



Singapore Raffles International Music Festival 2025 (Victoria Concert Hall), https://www.srimf.sg/winners-2025-cello-online/

Alexander’s photo top right




London International Music Competition August 2025 (Online) 1st Prize, Youth Violincello https://londoncompetition.co.uk/violoncello-2025




Amadeus International Music Awards September 2025 (Online) Bronze Prize Advanced Talent Violincello https://amadeusawards.com/violoncello-winners-2025/



Silver Prize, Cell (Junior A), Euterpe Music Awards 2025 (Berlin, Germany)

https://euterpeawards.com/cello-winners-2025/

https://www.theroyalmusic.org/onlinecompetition
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092384911945

First Prize Winner of The Royal Music Competition (September 2025). Invited by The Royal Foundation of Music and Arts and the Colburn Jurors Committee (Colburn Conservatory of Music, Los Angeles) to perform at The Royal Gala Concert with artists from The Julliard School, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall, January 11, 2026, New York City) as part of The Julliard School Music Festival (January 9-12, 2026). Alexander was also accepted for a Master’s Class with reknown cellist and Julliard faculty member Zlatomir Fung.

Alexander performed Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Élégie, Opus 3, No. 1 (arranged for cello and piano by Mischa Maisky), Dr. Peter Fang (piano accompaniment)