Alexandre Dos Santos

Born in Braga, Portugal, in 1994. From 2019 to 2022 he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Unidad Editorial Double Bass Chair with professor Duncan McTier.

In 2007 he began his studies at the Professional Artistic School of Valle del Ave with professor Alexandre Samardjiev. He continued at the Porto School of Music and Performing Arts with professor Florian Perztborn and at the Lisbon School of Music with professor Manuel Rego. He became a student of Rinat Ibraguimov and Luis Cabrera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has also attended masterclasses by Matthew McDonald and Alain Posch.

In 2014 he performed as a guest musician with the Fundaçao Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and was part of the London Symphony Orchestra’s string instrument practice programme in 2017 and 2018.

As a student of the School, he has been part of the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pablo González. In 2021 he participated in the 30th anniversary tour of the School with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with whom he performed at Madrid's Teatro Real, at Bratislava's Reduta Hall, at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Academy and at Vienna's Musikverein.
He has also been a member of the Unidad Editorial Dittersdorf Double Bass Quartet and Telemann Ensemble.