About

Alexander Wigglesworth is a Cardiff-based, New Zealand-born, musician who works across opera, theatrical, and vocal settings as a collaborative pianist, repetiteur, and conductor. Alexander’s work spans a wide range of the repertoire, highlights include Hansel & Gretel (Longborough Festival Opera), Jonathan Dove's Itch (Jonathan Dove, Opera Holland Park), Tosca (Wellington Opera), Heathers: The Musical (Pop-Up Productions), and the children’s theatre piece Goldilocks a la Mozart (William Green, Opera Otago). He has worked with a range of notable conductors including Tobias Ringborg, David Eaton, Matthew Kofi-Waldren, Paul Wingfield, and Brian Castles-Onion. 

In choral music, Alexander has worked in secular, sacred, and educational settings, as an accompanist, choral director, and organist. This has included working with choirs in national/international competitions, conducting community choirs & church choirs, and preparing choirs for massed choral works, including Faure's Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and Jenkins' The Armed Man. Alexander was also a member of New Zealand's professional chamber choir, Voices New Zealand.

Alexander enjoys working in musical theatre, and has worked on various productions, including Jersey Boys, Into the Woods, and West Side Story.  Alexander arranges pop-meets-classical chamber music, choral music, and waiata. He has worked with brass bands as a conductor, percussionist, and accompanist. He is particularly passionate about New Zealand music, and has worked with living composers on chamber music, vocal music, and opera. 

Alexander is supported by the Opera Awards Foundation, the Waikanae Music Society, and many supporters from New Zealand.