Alex Silverman studied Classics at Cambridge before embarking on a career in music. As a composer, conductor, and performer specialising in stage works, Alex has made music for shows in many of the UK's major playhouses, including a dozen at Shakespeare's Globe. His music is frequently heard on radio and on film, and in live performances in more than 20 countries worldwide. Much of Alex's professional work has been informed by his passion for ancient drama and music: he was composer for the Cambridge University Greek Plays from 2010 to 2022, and has collaborated on numerous projects exploring the reception and performance of ancient dramatic music at the APGRD in Oxford, with Live Canon, Creation, and Temple theatre companies, and on screen with Barefaced Greek Films.
Alex returned to academia in 2020, studying for an MPhil at Bristol, with a thesis on operatic adaptations of Euripides' Bacchae. Now based in Oxford, Alex is Director of Music at Regent's Park College and teaches at Jesus College, where he is a graduate scholar and part-time doctoral student researching the reception of ancient Greek meter in the work of modern composers.
PUBLICATIONS:
(Coming Nov 2025) Mime, meter, music. Interpreting and performing the dochmiacs of the 'Fragmentum Grenfellianum'. PHOENIX
2025 Review: Anacreon and Music: Neuf Odes d' Anacréon (1799, 1817) edited by Markus Stachon and Luisa Naumann. Classical Review
2024 (with Helen Eastman) The Pedagogic value of participating in a chorus. In D. Bullen & C. Plaistow (Eds.) Greek Tragedy, Education, and Theatre Practices in the UK Classics Ecology, Routledge
