Alex performs music by Beethoven, Britten and more at Blackheath Halls with horn player Alexei Watkins and tenor Nicky Spence. Programme also includes Alex’s piece ‘Aria’. Tickets available here: https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/blackheath-presents-alexei-watkins-french-horn-alex-woolf-piano

Alex accompanies soprano Rowan Pierce in the premiere of his new song, written for the Hands Up Foundation’s Music for Syria event at Cadogan Hall. This gala fundraising event also features performances from Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Simon Keenlyside and Iain Burnside, and is hosted by Petroc Trelawny. Tickets are available here: https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/music-for-syria/

Premiere of a new work commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society for members of the Philharmonia Orchestra. More details here: https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/music_of_today

Premiere of Alex’s organ voluntary The Word Became Flesh at St Pancras Church, London, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong programme. Commissioned by the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and performed by Léon Charles.

Broadcast of Alex’s song cycle ‘Quiet London’ on BBC Radio 3. Performed by Rowan Pierce (soprano), Elgan Llyr Thomas (tenor) and Iain Burnside (piano), and presented by Ian Skelly.

Available to listen here during/after broadcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tny5

Alex joins Alexei Watkins to present a varied programme of horn and piano music – including some of Alex’s own – at the beautiful Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.

Alex conducts Vox Luna at St Matthew’s Church, Westminster (, as they perform a programme of mostly Russian repertoire. Alex also accompanies violinist Stephanie Childress in Prokofiev’s Five Mélodies. Thanks to the support of the Oleg Prokofiev Trust, this concert is FREE to attend (no tickets required).

All details are here: https://www.facebook.com/events/585405898641578/

Alex conducts Vox Luna as they make their debut at Dulwich Festival, performing a varied programme of works by Stanford, Rachmaninov, Whitacre, McDowall, Byrd, Bruckner and Tavener. Also includes the world premiere of Alex’s own ‘The Darkling Thrush’.

Tickets available here: http://dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/vox-luna-chamber-choir/

Alex appears on a panel chaired by Katy Hamilton at the Ludlow English Song Weekend, discussing his commission and surveying the weekend ahead in a discussion entitled ‘Transcendence, cherries, lunar eclipses, peals of bells…’

Rowan Pierce (soprano), Elgan Llyr Thomas (tenor), and Iain Burnside (piano) perform a new work by Alex in the opening concert of the Ludlow English Song Weekend 2019, alongside works by Finzi, Butterworth, Vaughan Williams and Ireland.

Second performance of Alex’s a cappella choral work The Virgin Mary, at the Chapel of Lincoln’s Inn. This performance takes place at Lincoln’s Inn’s annual John Donne Service; Alex’s piece, fittingly, is a setting of text by Donne.

Daniel Shao and Joseph Havlat give the live world premiere of Alex’s Golden Rhapsody, written for and recorded by Sir James Galway in 2017, at the 1901 Arts Club (London).

Tickets available here: http://www.hattorifoundation.org.uk/19-march-2019---daniel-shao-flute.html

Alex’s St John’s Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) and his setting of the Responses will both be sung at Evensong at St John’s College, Cambridge, marking 150 years since the consecration of the College Chapel.

2nd performance of Alex’s setting of the Responses and Preces, at St John’s College Evensong in Cambridge.

World premiere of Alex’s setting of the Responses and Preces, at St John’s College Evensong in Cambridge.

The Lipatti Piano Quartet premiere Alex’s new work for the ensemble at The Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, alongside works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Amy Bryce and Joe Cutler.

More info here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/130011-soundstate-sessions-volume-4-2019

Alex heads to Switzerland for performances of his Ave Virgo Sanctissima and Christmas arrangements by the Choeur St-Michel.

Alex heads to Switzerland for performances of his Ave Virgo Sanctissima and Christmas arrangements by the Choeur St-Michel.

Alex conducts Vox Luna Chamber Choir in a sumptuous festive programme of choral works old and new, in the stunning setting of The Wallace Collection in central London. Programme to include works by Rutter, Whitacre, Britten, Warlock, McDowall, and Alex's own award-winning carol 'Nowell'. 

Tickets are available here: https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/carols-at-christmas/

Alex accompanies mezzo-soprano Tabitha Reynolds in a varied and festive programme of Mozart, Handel, Britten, Howells, Warlock and Massenet. 11am at St Mary’s Church, Faversham.

Alex’s choral work The Virgin Mary (for unaccompanied SATB with divisi) is premiered by Nicholas Shaw and the Choir of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, at this year’s Lincoln’s Inn Carol Service on Tuesday 4th December.

Premiere of a new piece for countertenor and string quartet, commissioned by The Arts Society and performed by Hamish McLaren (countertenor) and the Czigany Quartet (pictured) at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Matilda Lloyd (trumpet) and John Reid (piano) give the premiere performance of Alex's Direct Message, at the launch concert for Matilda's debut album (for which the piece was composed) at Royal Academy of Music, London.

Premiere of a specially-commissioned piece celebrating 10 years of Aldeburgh Young Musicians, of which Alex was an original member. Performed by current and former Aldeburgh Young Musicians at Snape Maltings Concert Hall. 

Alex and horn player Alexei Watkins make their Buxton Festival debut in a programme of Beethoven, Messiaen, Strauss & Woolf. More information available here: http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/events/alexei-watkins-alex-woolf

Alex accompanies horn player Alexei Watkins in a recital of Beethoven, Franz Strauss, Messiaen and Alex's own music. 1.10pm at All Saint's Church, High Wycombe – free admission.

The New Cambridge Singers perform Salve Regina in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Tickets available here: https://www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets/events/new-cambridge-singers-o-how-glorious

Broadcast of The NHS Symphony on BBC Radio 3. Alex has collaborated with producer Laurence Grissell to create a portrait of the NHS in words, sound and music in its 70th anniversary year.

Music performed by 3 NHS choirs and members of the Bach Choir, recorded at the BBC with Alex at the piano, conducted by Mark Austin.

The broadcast will be available to listen to live and for 30 days after broadcast on BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b86s0j

The New Cambridge Singers perform Salve Regina at All Saint's Church, Haslingfield.

Tabitha Reynolds (mezzo) and Alexei Watkins (horn) give the premiere performance of a special arrangement of 'The Fall' (from Requiem) at the Royal Academy of Music. Free entry; no tickets required.