Alexander Platt
Conductor (Banff)
Music director of the Waukesha Symphony and the Marion Indiana Philharmonic, Alexander Platt is resident conductor and music advisor of Chicago Opera Theater. Born in New York City, Platt was educated at Yale College, where he was resident conductor at the Yale Center for British Art and was awarded most of the College's major music prizes. He was a Marshall Scholar at King’s College in Cambridge, UK, where he conducted both the Cambridge University Opera and Musical Societies. He spent his summers as a conducting fellow at both Aspen and Tanglewood, and secured his first post as apprentice conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Opera. His work has ranged from leading the triumphant Chicago premieres of Britten’s Death in Venice and Midsummer Night’s Dream to guest conducting the Houston, Charlotte, and Columbus symphonies, the Freiburg Philharmonic in Germany, and the Aalborg Symphony in Denmark, with whom he led a highly successful Mahler week. Platt recently recorded Scottish works for violin and orchestra with Rachel Barton and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. The Cedille Records disc made its debut in summer 2005. He has recorded for National Public Radio, the South-West German Radio, and the BBC, and has earned acclaim from The New York Times, The Financial Times, The London Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Opera News, and the Chicago Tribune. Platt spends his summers directing the Maverick Concerts, the oldest summer chamber-music festival in America.
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