Alex’s musical life began at age six, when he attended his first Los Angeles Philharmonic performance. It was Paganini’s Violin Concerto in D Major, played in a fiery and inspiring interpretation by the teenaged Robert Chen, (current Concert-Master with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) that established the focus of Alex’s life. Within a month after that concert, Alex began his classical violin studies. In junior high school he began learning guitar as well, simultaneously branching out into the worlds of Classical, Jazz, and Rock music.

Throughout his undergraduate years at U.C. Santa Cruz and graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, Alex refined his skills as a violinist, leading to performances as a soloist with orchestras, in recitals, and chamber music settings. It was also during this time that Alex began composing and arranging music for a variety of Chamber, Folk, Jazz, and World-Music groups.

Back to Los Angeles in 2002, Alex began investing into the next generation of musicians by teaching the many talented students of his private violin studio.  Yet he kept pencil to music-paper by working as a Producer and Arranger for Vitamin Records.  His creative arrangements are heard on String Quartet Tribute Albums to The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Diana Krall, and David Gray.  In 2004, he was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Young Film Composers Competition sponsored by Turner Classic Movies.  Alex also participated in two prestigious film-scoring workshops in 2005: The NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Seminar (New York) and the ASCAP Film and Television Scoring Workshop (Los Angeles).

Since 2006 Alex has scored a number of student and independent films, which have been featured in festivals, including the LACMA/Muse - Young Filmmakers Night, the Independent Student Film Festival of Hollywood, and most recently, the American Black Film Festival in Los Angeles (2007).