Alexander Briger

Alexander Briger is an Australian conductor. Educated at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied violin, and the Richard Strauss Conservatorium in Munich, where he earned a degree in conducting, he went on to assist his uncle, Charles Mackerras, in several performances. He also established himself as a conductor of modern music, studying with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain. In 1993, he won the first prize at the International Competition for Conductors, held in the Czech Republic. He has given many premieres of modern and contemporary works, in a...