Director, Alex Innecco
Alex Innecco conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Chorale in Kansas City.
Italian-Brazilian conductor Alex Innecco is the artistic director of the Columbia Chorale and of the 9th Street Philharmonic Orchestra, also in Columbia, Missouri. He has led these groups in works including Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Brahms’ Requiem.
He is music director at Missouri United Methodist Church and co-owner of Carpe Diem, a center for the arts. Alex has a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s in voice from Indiana University. His experiences include running an art school in Brazil (Estudio Amplo) and working with community groups in Brazil, the USA and Europe.
Over the last few seasons, he has conducted works including Verdi’s 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.
