Alec Frank-Gemmill has performed extensively as an orchestral player, chamber musician and also as a soloist, the latter most recently alongside Pekka Kuusisto and Allan Clayton with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. His 4th album, of Mozart’s horn concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, was released in November 2024 and was Gramophone Magazine’s discs of the year.
From 2023-2025 Alec studied conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. He made his professional debut as conductor in 2022 with the Norrbotten chamber orchestra in Sweden. Since then he has conducted the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Lohja City Orchestra in Finland and International Symphony Orchestra Lviv, Ukraine. Forthcoming engagements include Manchester Camerata and the BBC Philharmonic.
Alec will also act as cover conductor for English National Ballet in Season 25-26 (including conducting performances of their new production of the Nutcracker at the Coliseum). In July 2024 Bachtrack described his performance with the Järvi Sinfonietta in Estonia as “Haydn conducting of appreciable verve and imagination, beautifully weighted inner parts and a relaxed confidence in timing”. Alec is the founder and director of Odin Ensemble, a Gothenburg-based group which performs on instruments from the early 20th century. They toured to Germany at the end of last year and were immediately re-invited. In recognition of “an artistry in constant development and deepening”, Alec received the 2023 Sten A. Olsson scholarship for culture from Sweden’s Stena Foundation.




