Alexander Joel

Alexander Joel grew up in Vienna and London and studied Law at King's College London, before moving back to Vienna to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music, completing his conducting studies in Vienna with honours in 1996. Alexander was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 2001 to 2007, and then was appointed Music Director of the Staatstheater and Staatsorchester Braunschweig from 2007 to 2014. From 2016 to 2018, he was the Principal Guest Conductor at the Vlaamse Opera. He is also a regular guest conductor at the Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg Staatsoper, Semper Oper Dresden, the New National Theatre in Toyko, the Royal Opera Stockholm, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera Zürich, and Geneva Opera.