Meyrick Alexander
Before taking up his position as Head of Woodwind at RWCMD in
2010, Meyrick Alexander had held the position of Principal Bassoon
in the Philharmonia Orchestra since 1980, before
which he was a member of several leading orchestras including the
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia.
Meyrick is Principal Bassoon of the London Chamber
Orchestra and has played period instruments with John Eliot
Gardiner’s Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He is a regular
guest principal with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment. He has performed extensively as a chamber
musician and as a guest with nearly every British symphony and
chamber orchestra, and is also a regular soloist at the annual
International Double Reed Conference in the USA, Australia and the
UK.
In contemporary music, he is the dedicatee of a number of solo
works and has performed with the London Sinfonietta. He
has been a member of the teaching staff at the Guildhall
School of Music & Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, and the RNCM
and he regularly gives masterclasses and recitals at all
the leading conservatoires in Britain and several in
Europe, Australia, USA and the Far East. He has also served on the
jury on two major international competitions.
Currently, Meyrick is involved in the creation
of the I Culture Orchestra in Poland which consists of young
musicians and draws its members from Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia,
Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia and Poland.