About the Director

Alex Innecco, artistic director

Italian-Brazilian conductor Alex Innecco is the artistic director of the Columbia Chorale and of the 9th Street Philharmonic Orchestra, in Columbia, Missouri, USA. He has led these groups in works including Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Brahms’ and Verdi Requiems, Mahler’s Symphony no.1, Mozart’s C Minor Mass and Haydn’s The Creation. He is the music director at Missouri United Methodist Church. Alex has a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s in voice from Indiana University.

His musical/educational experience includes running an art school in Brazil (Estudio Amplo) and working with community and college groups in Brazil, the United States, and Europe. Over the last three years, he has conducted works in Columbia, Kansas City, Seattle, and Kotor (Montenegro) - pieces such as Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata, Puccini’s La Bohème, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Rutter’s Gloria and Requiem.

As a singer/actor he has appeared in works such as Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Moliere’s Les Precieuses Ridicules, and his own productions, A Tenor in the Cabaret and Who’s afraid of Classical Music. Innecco conducted Hansel und Gretel last November in Seattle . A concert series he created at Missouri United Methodist Church, in Columbia, MO, became reference for good music in that city.

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About the Director

Alex Innecco, artistic director