ALEX GLASS (b. 2000) is a New York City-based composer, pianist, and educator who creates thoughtful, emotionally powerful music while exploring and dissolving boundaries between musical practices. A composer since the age of seven, Alex has developed a compositional style influenced by classical piano repertoire, jazz harmonic and melodic language, odd rhythms and meters, and innovative textures and timbres.

Alex has had the opportunity to work with prestigious ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, Argus Quartet, Ensemble Chartreuse, SPLICE Ensemble, Temple University New Music Ensemble, Temple Composer’s Orchestra, and the Mannes Orchestra, and he has received performances of numerous other chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, and solo piano works. Alex’s recent distinctions include a publication by North Star Music of Songs for Lewis Carroll, a 28-minute dramatic song cycle for baritone and piano, and the Martinu Prize, awarded for his original orchestral composition The World Inside. He is also an active pianist and educator who can be found performing jazz standards at venues around New York City, freelancing as an accompanist, or teaching piano and guitar to students of his studio in Bath Beach, Brooklyn.

Alex graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in composition from Boyer College at Temple University, and he received his Master’s degree in composition at the Mannes School of Music, where he studied with Timo Andres.