Alex Hodgkinson
Alex Hodgkinson serves as Director of Music at St. Theresa’s Church, Trumbull, Connecticut.
Following an organ scholarship at Ely Cathedral, Alex read Music at Oxford. There he was Organ Scholar of Keble College and spent a year as Acting Organ Scholar of New College.
Alex was successively Head of Academic Music at Repton School and Choirmaster at Marlborough College. At Marlborough he conducted several major works including Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Verdi’s Requiem.
Alex went on to become Director of Music at Christ’s Hospital, one of the UK’s leading educational charities. He led the large and flourishing music department, ran several choirs, oversaw the comprehensive restoration of the Chapel organ, and developed an ongoing partnership with the English Chamber Orchestra.
As a conductor, organist, pianist, and composer, Alex has featured on CD recordings and on BBC Radios 3 and 4. He has directed choral courses in the UK and China, and co-founded the Hackney Choral Course, a free singing week for young people in North London.
Alex is a prizewinning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and was awarded the silver medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He frequently writes about organ and choral music, contributing most recently to the Catholic Herald and The American Organist. He is Sub-Dean of the Greater Bridgeport Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.