Instructor
Guitar
Contact Information
Cogswell 306
Courses
- Applied Guitar
Education
- MM, Duquesne University
- BSEd, IUP
- BFA, IUP
Biography
As a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and audio engineer, Alex Price has enjoyed a growing career over the last decade. Primarily a studio musician and freelancer in the Pittsburgh region, he can also be found fronting jazz-fusion group The Inner Urge and covering auxiliary strings with local songwriter Jason Gamble. Alex frequently works as the fretted instrument specialist on call with a number of orchestras including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, and the Wheeling Symphony in addition to occasional appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Recently, his music has been licensed for use in films such as Sustaining Grace and Ana Lily Amirpour’s recent thriller, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon. Prior to returning stateside, he had spent a number of years working onboard cruise ships in the theaters of various Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruise vessels, eventually ending up as the guitarist in the theater onboard the world-famous Cunard ocean liner, The Queen Mary 2. As a musician, he is known in the area for proficiency across a number of genres ranging from rock to classical, jazz, and gospel. A competent sight reader and a house band musician, Alex has backed up acts such as Bernadette Peters, Wayne Newton, Sutton Foster, Sheena Easton, and Mandy Gonzalez. Listen to Alex’s music online under his own name, with The Inner Urge, and Resolute Vibration - all distributed through AWAL, a division of Sony Music.