Alex Ingram began his career as a repetiteur at Welsh National Opera followed by three years as Assistant Chorusmaster/Repetiteur at ENO. He then became Assistant Conductor and eventually Music Director of State Opera of South Australia. He subsequently spent time on the music staff of Kiel Opera in Germany and rejoined ENO where he became one of the Resident Conductors.

Since 2003,as a freelance guest conductor, Alex has been conducting in Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Japan,,USA, Sweden and Germany. In 2004/5 Alex continued his collaboration with Paul Daniel on the ENO Ring cycle conducting performances of The Valkyrie and Twilight of the Gods . In summer of 2005 he travelled to Japan to conduct Triple Bills for Sylvie Guillem and conducted Anna Bolena with the Philharmonia at the Tower of London. In the Autumn he prepared and conducted the world premiere of Skuggspel a new Opera by Hans Gefors for the Malmö and Lübeck Opera companies and in 2006 he assisted Oleg Caetani on ENO’s new production of Vaughan-Williams’s Sir John in Love and conducted The Sleeping Beauty for ENB. He then worked on Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Mark Elder. With the Royal Ballet he has conducted many performances of Swan Lake and various Triple Bills at Covent Garden and in Australia, New York (at the Met), Moscow (Bolshoi theatre and orchestra) and St Petersburg ( Mariinsky ). Future plans include Don Giovanni for British Youth Opera, a double-bill for Guildhall School of Music and conducting at Göteborg’s new Opera House.

Alex has now conducted well over a hundred performances at the London Coliseum. His large and varied repertoire includes Dido and Aeneas, Giulio Cesare, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosí Fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, L’Italiana in Algeri, Don Pasquale,
Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Faust, The Pearl Fishers, Carmen, Der Fliegender Holländer, Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal, Manon, Eugene Onegin, La Gioconda, I Pagliacci, Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi, Königskinder, Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Rake’s Progress, Blond Eckbert, La Belle Hélène, La Périchole, The Mikado.