- country:United Kingdom
- style(s):Salsa
- label:Alex Wilson Records
- artist posted by:Alex Wilson
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Alex Wilson is one of the UK’s foremost latin-jazz recording artists. He has travelled to forty-six countries to perform music in a multitude of projects
In 1993, after gaining a degree in Electronics from the University of York, he embarked on a professional career as a pianist, performing and recording with Courtney Pine, Jazz Jamaica, Sandra Cross, Adalberto Santiago and Jocelyn Brown, quickly being signed to the Candid label.
He now has five solo albums out in a latin jazz and salsa vein and continues a diverse career which currently includes a commission from the Royal Opera House, composing for theatre productions, producing latin hip hop, running his 12-piece salsa band, work as a session keyboard player and education work in music colleges.
Alex is a committed music educator, having delivered workshops and masterclasses for young people both internationally, for The British Council in Colombia, Cuba, Jordan and Israel, as well as here in the UK for music colleges, such as the British Academy of New Music, The Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Nottingham University. His work in schools has provided workshops and summer schools for Education Action Zone and ‘Gifted and Talented’ schemes. Alex was also a key member of the series of workshops based around the Commonwealth produced by Serious for young people around the UK in 2002.
Alex was born in the UK and was brought up in Sierra Leone, UK, Austria and Switzerland.