Alexander Shelley
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alexander Gordon Shelley |
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8 October 1979 London, England |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor |
| Instruments | Cello, Piano |
| Years active | 2005-present |
| Website | AlexanderShelley |
Alexander Gordon Shelley (born 8 October 1979, London, England) is an English conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) in Ottawa, as well as principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO).
The son of the pianists Howard Shelley OBE and Hilary Macnamara, Shelley learned piano from his mother and cello from his grandmother. In 1992, he won a music scholarship to Westminster School from The Hall School Hampstead. He studied cello with Timothy Hugh, Steven Doane and Johannes Goritzki at the Royal College of Music and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf respectively. Master-classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot led him to France, Italy and North America. He was a member of the World Orchestra for Peace during the 2003 tour with Valery Gergiev. He studied conducting with Professor Thomas Gabrisch in Düsseldorf and worked closely with Yan-Pascal Tortelier as his assistant conductor, among others with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
In 2001 he founded the Schumann Camerata, a chamber orchestra with whom he subsequently performed over 80 concerts. In 2005, he won first prize in the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition. In the same year, Shelley conceived the "440Hz" project, a series of concerts involving prominent German television and stage personalities, to attract young adults to the concert hall. Guest artists have included Konrad Beikircher, Gotz Alsmann&Band, Die Wise Guys, Blank&Jones, BASTA, Ensemble Six, Miki, Curse, Reen, Mellow Mark, Ono, Chima, Marlies Petersen and Ralf Bauer.
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