Alexander Voltz

Composer

Alexander Voltz is an Australian composer. His music has been performed and supported by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music, the Australian Youth Orchestra and others. In 2024, he won the Symphonic Category of the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest for his orchestral work Dunrossil Elms.

Alexander was a winner in Artology’s 2015 Fanfare Competition in Sydney, and reached the semi-finals of the Bartok World Composition Competition in Budapest in both 2018 and 2020. His chamber opera, Edward and Richard: The True Story of the Princes in the Tower, premiered in 2021 in Brisbane.

In 2022, he served as Emerging Composer-in-Residence for Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, and was also a recipient of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Composer Commissioning Fund. He placed second in the Harlow Chorus Young Composers’ Competition in London. Alexander conceived and directed The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert, recognised by the Australian Government as the Commonwealth’s largest musical tribute to Her Late Majesty Elizabeth II in her seventieth year as Queen of Australia.

Alexander holds a Bachelor of Music with First-Class Honours from The University of Queensland where he studied viola performance and composition. He has benefited from the mentorships of several leading Australian composers, including Brenton Broadstock and Brett Dean. Alexander also holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Ancient History/History and Writing. He is the founding Music Editor of the cultural journal Quadrant.

Alexander lives in Brisbane, Australia.