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Bassist Alexander Svensen is an active musician and educator playing and teaching classical and jazz throughout the northeastern United States and beyond. Alex currently serves as principal bassist of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra (CT) and assistant principal bass of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA). As a freelance musician, he has been holding down the low frequencies with many other projects and maintains a busy and rewarding performance schedule.
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Based in southern Connecticut, Alexander Svensen enjoys a career as a classical, jazz, and pop double bassist and electric bassist. In the fall of 2018, Alex will join the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra as principal double bass, and has served as section, then assistant principal bassist of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA) since 2014. He maintains a busy freelance career across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. His playing has been hailed as "exemplary" and “honorable.”
Alex’s musical life began early, fostered by his family, all of whom were active participants in the music and theater scenes of his hometown, Jamestown, New York. Still, it came as a surprise when he could be heard singing difficult chromatic melodies from "Phantom of the Opera" at age 4. When a 10-year-old Alex demanded that he start learning to play the electric bass, his mother, a pianist herself, insisted he also start piano as a part of his musical training. In addition to these two instruments, he went on to study alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, guitar, cello, viola, tuba, and joined the school choir. Alex was 14 years old when he finally shook hands with the double bass. Read more...
Alex’s musical life began early, fostered by his family, all of whom were active participants in the music and theater scenes of his hometown, Jamestown, New York. Still, it came as a surprise when he could be heard singing difficult chromatic melodies from "Phantom of the Opera" at age 4. When a 10-year-old Alex demanded that he start learning to play the electric bass, his mother, a pianist herself, insisted he also start piano as a part of his musical training. In addition to these two instruments, he went on to study alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, guitar, cello, viola, tuba, and joined the school choir. Alex was 14 years old when he finally shook hands with the double bass. Read more...