Conductor: Levi Alexander

LEVI ALEXANDER (MMus (c.l.) Cho. Cond. (US), BMus Sax Perf (UCT), PGCE Music (Rhodes), LTCL (Sax)) is currently the Departmental Head of Music at the SACS High School. He fills the roles of Concert Band and Marching Band Director. The SACS Concert Band participated in the Mid Europe Wind Band Festival in Schladming, Austria, where they competed in the top international wind band competition in 2017. They look forward to competiting again in 2024.

He is also the Director of the Symphony Choir of Cape and holds a cum laude Masters Degree in Music specialising in Choral Conducting from Stellenbosch University which he attained under the mentorship of Dr Martin Berger. His thesis addressed the “Plight of Anglican Music in the Western Cape” through three case studies. He is an alumnus of the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre, thereafter attaining a Bachelor’s Degree of Music in baritone saxophone performance and conducting at the South African College of Music (UCT). He completed his Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Rhodes) specialising in High School Creative Arts and Music Education.

He taught classical saxophone at the Cape Philharmonic Youth Music Academy, Beau Soleil Music Centre, University of the Western Cape – Centre of the Performing Arts. He currently teaches saxophone at the University of Cape Town – South African College of Music.

He was the student assistant conductor of the University of Cape Town Symphonic Wind Band and Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Beau Soleil Senior Wind Band, resident conductor of the University of the Western Cape Symphonic Wind Orchestra and the assistant conductor of the Symphony Choir of Cape Town. He has worked extensively with the Stellenbosch University Schola Cantorum Choir as a student conductor. He served as Interregnum Music Assistant at St George’s Grammar School while St George's Cathedral appointed their new music director in 2013. He also conducts and directs The Royal Crusaders Christmas Band (since 2006), a community marching band based in Bellville and was appointed the Director of Music of the Peninsula and District Christmas Bands Union (2010-2013).