Alex Tedrow is a composer, arranger, and educator who strives to connect performers and audiences of all ages with fresh, fun, and innovative music and technology. Offering a “vivacious and colorful” stylistic voice described as a “topography of beautifully integrated and deliberate sounds” (Eric Smedley, IU Symphonic Band), he regularly writes music for a wide variety of media. His works have been played internationally by musicians in both professional and educational settings – including the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Wet Ink Ensemble, acclaimed broadway performer, Christopher Jackson, and multiple middle school, high school, and college ensembles in nearly every continent. With his background and training as a music educator, he frequently works as a clinician with student musicians to realize their full potential as creatives and young artists.

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Alex currently lives in the Washington D.C. and holds a full-time position as Staff Arranger for The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own." In addition to his professional and academic activities, Alex is committed to community engagement. In 2016, he co-founded Composing for a Cause – a not-for-profit program in which professional musicians travel to hospitals for children across the United States to host songwriting and creativity workshops. In 2019, he joined the Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative focusing on cultivating sustainable development in rural Indiana communities through collaborative arts programming. During summers, he has worked as a Music Theory Instructor at the Brevard Music Center.

Alex maintains a busy schedule as a freelance composer. In 2019, he studied at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France during ManiFeste where he premiered Planet Playground – an interactive, real-time, data-driven project incorporating crowd participation via cell phones. He co-composed the original soundtrack for the PC video game, The Shadows that Linger, by Crimson Ink Games. In 2021, he was hired to score The Addict's Wake, a multi-award-winning documentary featured at film festivals, hospitals, and correctional facilities across the country covering the effects of drug addiction in rural communities. In 2023, Alex scored music for the PBS-featured documentary, Over There: Hoosier Heroes of the Great War.

Alex has been recognized with such honors as the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, the SEAMUS Allen Strange Memorial Award, and was selected as an "Emerging Artist" in the Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition. At Indiana University, he was winner of the Georgina Joshi New Music Ensemble Commission Award and the Morris and Sheila Hass Award in Computer Music. He is an Indiana Lilly Endowment Scholar and a recipient of the Austin B. Caswell Musicology Award.
 

Alex is currently completing dual M.M. and M.S. degrees in composition and music education from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he held positions as Associate Instructor in Music Education and Composition Department Coordinator. Alex is a classical saxophonist, jazz bassist, and rock keyboard and guitar player. He is also an avid traveler, hiker, foodie, podcast listener, and animal lover — all themes that inspire his work.