Biography
Capriccio Chamber Orchestra, Music Director, Conductor and Soloist.
Alex Eisenberg, a brilliant violinist, was born in Odessa, into a musical family that included his grandfather Michael Greenberg, a famous Russian pedagogue and chamber musician.
Alex began his musical studies in Odessa and then at the Moscow Conservatory where he won numerous competitions. After leaving the Soviet Union, he continued his studies at Hochschule fur Music, Vienna.
Alex has won many prestigious awards, including First Prize and a Gold medal in the Michelangelo Abbado Violin Competition in Sondrio, Italy, along with the Paolo Borciani special prize for chamber music. He is also a winner of Concorso Internationale Rameu in France.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Alex has performed in Europe, South and North Americas with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Odessa Philharmonic, Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Festival Orchestra, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra. Alex has been guest conductor of West Coast Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Kammerorchester and Vorarlberg Kammerorchester.
Currently, he enters his 8th season as music director of Capriccio Chamber Orchestra and also is the founding music director of Capriccio Music.