In the 2007-08 season he continued his work as Music Director of Wisconsin's Waukesha Symphony and the Marion Indiana Philharmonic, and began his equally acclaimed work as the new Music Advisor of the Boca Raton Symphonia, the appointment following his concert with flute virtuoso James Galway on 48-hours notice; the Palm Beach Post recently hailed his work there as the finest ensemble to emerge out of the demise of the Florida Philharmonic. He also made extremely successful debuts with the Flagstaff Symphony, the Quad City Symphony, and the Lexington Philharmonic, with his FSO performance of Sibelius' difficult and esoteric Symphony No.3 being awarded an especially ecstatic reception. This season he makes his debuts with the Sioux City Symphony and Houston's new River Oaks Chamber Orchestra.

Alexander Platt made his debut with Chicago Opera Theater in 1997 in Mozart's Don Giovanni, and was appointed Resident Conductor in 2000. Since then he has won international acclaim for his conducting of several of opera's most celebrated and challenging modern masterpieces. He led the Chicago premieres of John Adams' NIXON IN CHINA, Tchaikovsky's IOLANTA, Britten's DEATH IN VENICE and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; the Chicago full stage premiere of Schonberg's ERWARTUNG; and the world-premiere recording of Robert Kurka's THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK, earning for them raves in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times of London as well as all the major Chicago papers. In 2008/9 Alexander leads the Chicago premiere of the Bizet/Peter Brook masterpiece, La Tragedie de Carmen.

Alexander Platt is now entering his second decade as Music Director of both the Waukesha Symphony and the Marion Indiana Philharmonic, and completed an extremely fruitful 12-year tenure as Music Director of the Racine Symphony Orchestra. In addition to mining a European repertory that has ranged from the late Haydn Masses to his own acclaimed adaptation of the Grieg/Ibsen Peer Gynt, Alexander has made a sustained commitment to the work of living American composers, leading the world or area premieres of major works by Joan Tower, Libby Larsen, Michael Torke, Daron Hagen, Aaron Jay Kernis and Russell Platt. His reconstruction of Erwin Stein's lost Chamber Version of the Mahler Fourth Symphony has become a classic of the repertoire, with several commercial recordings, and based on this success and that of his chamber version of Del Tredici's Final Alice, he has also been sanctioned to arrange a chamber-ensemble version of John Corigliano's music for The Red Violin.

Alexander Platt has guest-conducted the Houston, Charlotte, Columbus and Indianapolis Symphonies, the City of London Sinfonia, the Freiburg Philharmonic in Germany, and the Aalborg Symphony in Denmark. In 2004 he recorded Scottish masterpieces for violin and orchestra with Rachel Barton and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Cedille Records, an album that has met with great success on radio stations across the continent. He has also recorded for National Public Radio, the South-West German Radio, and the BBC. Born in New York City, Alexander Platt was educated at Yale University. He then spent three years as a Marshall Scholar at King's College Cambridge, where he won high praise for his revival of Britten's OWEN WINGRAVE. During this time there he made his professional conducting debut at England's legendary Aldeburgh festival, and spent his summers as a Conducting Fellow at both Aspen and Tanglewood.