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Eric Alexander
Eric Alexander is a composer/trombonist based in Atlanta, Georgia His current jobs include staff arranger and trombonist for the Church of the Apostles, the largest television ministry in the world. Around Atlanta he enjoys freelancing with the world class musicians of Atlanta playing with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and for ...Read More
Eric Alexander is a composer/trombonist based in Atlanta, Georgia His current jobs include staff arranger and trombonist for the Church of the Apostles, the largest television ministry in the world. Around Atlanta he enjoys freelancing with the world class musicians of Atlanta playing with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and for shows at the Fox Theater among many others. An active composer, he has received grants in composition from the National Institute of Music Theater located in The John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington DC, the National Endowment for the Arts in association with the Continental Harmony Project (A White House Initiative), The American Composers Forum and many others. He has received commissions from the Empire Brass, The King's Brass, The Mount Union College Brass Choir, Shakespeare and Co., and The Columbia Theater Players. Mr. Alexander has been very active in theater and has written music for many plays and musicals including: TalleyÕs Folly, Tribute, Much Ado About Nothing, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, MachiavelliÕs Mandragola and Gertrude SteinÕs The Making of Americans in productions by The Columbia Theater Players, Shakespeare and Company in Tanglewood, Massachusetts and The Music Theater Group in New York City. In 1986 he was asked to reconstruct, arrange, orchestrate and direct the music for a mammoth opera by Al Carmine The Making of Americans for which Mr. Alexander received critical acclaim from the New York Times and The Village Voice. The music he wrote for Shakespeare and Co.'s production of Much Ado About Nothing was called "...as witty as is possible in sound." by Kevin Kelly - The Boston Globe. Mr. Alexander's music has been played by The Boston Pops, The Empire Brass, The Minnesota Orchestra, The Monumental Brass Quintet, The Annapolis Choral Society and is featured as the station identification for EWTN. His writing can also be heard on over 250 recordings including his own CD Credo which was released for a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1998. His work can be heard on the successful Spiritual to the 'Bone series of CD's, A Bach Festival by The Empire Brass, the King's Brass and countless Salvation Army Band Staff Band Recordings worldwide. As an instrumentalist he has recorded extensively for CD, radio and television. As a soloist he appears on Premier Brass, Cecil Welch's release Too Little Time, On Tour with The National Capitol Band, and all four volumes of Spiritual to the ÔBone. He can be seen on Sinbad's Summer Jam Two with The GAP Band and on Ron Kenoly's video God is Able. Among others, he has recorded with The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The GAP Band, The Ohio Players, Edwin McCain, Matchbox 20, Train, Turner Classic Movies, The Cartoon Network, The Discovery Channel and the Hallmark Channel. As an instrumentalist he has toured all over the world and played with The Empire Brass, The New Orleans Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony, David Sanborn, Al Jarreau, Tom Scott, Dr. John, Don Henley, Barry Manilow, The Moody Blues, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney, Marvin Hamlisch, Joni Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Tony Bennet and many others.
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