ALEXANDRA HELLDORFF
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Alexandra Helldorff (* 1986 Jaroslawl, Russia) is a conductor, harpsichordist, pianist, and choir and ensemble leader. She received her first piano lessons at the age of five at the music school in her home town; she moved to Austria with her family in 1999.
Alexandra began her training (conducting with Tito Ceccherini and piano with Bozidar Noev) at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck; at the same time, she began comprehensive music studies at Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she studied piano with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Alexei Lubimov, choral conducting with Karl Kamper and orchestral conducting with Dennis Russell Davies. This was followed by further postgraduate courses in the field of historically informed performance practice with Reinhard Goebel and conducting with Hans Graf, as well as harpsichord and doctoral studies with Anne Marie Dragosits at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. She also received important impulses from Margit Legler in the field of historical acting.
For her outstanding achievements during her studies, she was awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the Mozarteum Foundation. In addition to numerous appearances as a solo and chamber music pianist, she has also conducted the Mozarteum University Ensemble, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra and her own ensemble SÆSCH. She has also performed concerts and radio recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the WDR Orchestra and Choir, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele Orchestra and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie.
(Updated: 2025-11-06)
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