About Us

Barry Alexander began his musical studies at age three and gave his first recital at age four, starting a career that would afford him distinctions in both music and scholastic achievement. He became the youngest student ever enrolled at Wayne State University since its founding in 1868, receiving both State Senate and House Resolutions marking the accomplishment. Invited to address both houses of the Michigan State Legislature on the importance of education, he was presented an official proclamation as the youngest person to receive such an invitation since the Legislature’s founding in 1837. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Loucye Gordy Wakefield Scholarship from the Motown Foundation.

Mr. Alexander performed concerts throughout the United States before completing graduate studies at Princeton University and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, followed by concert tours in Europe and an engagement with the Michigan Opera Theater. Fluent in four languages, he became known for his performances of German lieder, and the bel canto repertoire of Rossini and Bellini, receiving praise from audiences and critics alike, with Dean Nolan describing him as “an artist of the highest caliber,” and musicologist Mark Lipson dubbing him “Alexander the Great.”

Concluding his professional singing career of thirty years as one of only two non-Polish citizens ever asked to perform with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, he returned to New York to start Alexander & Associates, a public relations firm devoted to promoting classical musicians, before co-founding Alexander & Buono International with Steinway Artist Cosmo Buono. The partnership led to the establishment of the Alexander & Buono Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation, in 2008, and the presentation of more than 500 artists from around the world in their Carnegie Hall performance debut.