Gibson, Sir Alexander

Performer

Sir Alexander Gibson CBE FRSE FRSAMD Hon RAM FRCM RSA FRSA (11 February 1926 – 14 January 1995) was a Scottish conductor and opera intendant. Gibson was born in Motherwell and was educated at Dalziel High School. He later studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, as well as in London, Salzburg and Siena, Italy. He was Assistant Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 1952-54 and conducted two productions for the amateur Glasgow Grand Opera Society in 1954. At the time of his appointment in 1957 as musical director of Sadler's Wells, he was the youngest ever to have taken that position. [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• The Italian Girl in Algiers
• The Barber of Seville
• Cinderella
• Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17
• Alceste, Wq. 44
• Karelia Suite, Op. 11
• Funeral March of a Marionette
• Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
• Medea
• The Servant Turned Mistress