Alejandro Drago

Alejandro Drago is a violinist, conductor, composer, and educator. Hailed by critics as “a superb musician” with the “classical virtuosity of a Heifetz or Perlman,” his discography includes string quartets, concertos, and avant-garde tangos released internationally by EMI International and Naxos Music Library Japan. He received a scholarship to study at the Moscow State Conservatory, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Violin Performance and Pedagogy, and later a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Southern Mississippi. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in major concert halls and toured extensively in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Assistant Conductor of the Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Southern Mississippi Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared as a guest conductor with orchestras in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and Romania, and is currently Music Director of the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra. His symphonic and chamber arrangements of Argentine music have been widely performed internationally. Recent highlights include recording his own Violin Concerto with the Chihuahua Philharmonic Orchestra. His works are published by Filarmonika.com and Eurindia Edizioni. He joined the University of North Dakota faculty in 2008 as Professor of Violin and Viola and Director of the UND Chamber Orchestra.