Alex Mansour
- Composer
- Music Department
- Director
Alex Mansour is a composer, cellist, and pianist from Los Angeles California.
As a composer, Alex is passionate about writing for both the screen and the concert hall. In film, he most recently scored Radical Wolfe (dir. Richard Dewey, now on Netflix) as well as geopolitical thriller/documentary SOMM: Cup of Salvation (dir. Jason Wise, streaming on SOMM TV). Work of his has screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, amongst other festivals. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by the American Youth Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Washington and Lee University Symphony, the USC Thornton Symphony, the Norfolk New Music Festival at Yale, etc. Mansour's tone poem for orchestra, Fantasy Noir, was awarded third place in the American Prize.
As a cellist, Alex is an active session musician in Los Angeles (recently played on Black Adam, Dungeons and Dragons, HBO's The Gilded Age, Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham...). He served as principal of American Youth Symphony (2019-2023), and has joined the New York String Orchestra Seminar for their Christmas concerts at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared on NPR's "From the Top". He has studied with Katinka Kleijn (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and during an exchange in London, Richard Lester (Royal College of Music).
As a pianist, Alex arranged and played for Arturo Sandoval's Christmas album, performing with him at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. He attended the 2019 BANFF International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, a program helmed by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, and was the pianist of the USC Jazz Honors Combo 2019-2020. He has studied piano with Russell Ferrante and Jim Trompeter.
As a composer, Alex is passionate about writing for both the screen and the concert hall. In film, he most recently scored Radical Wolfe (dir. Richard Dewey, now on Netflix) as well as geopolitical thriller/documentary SOMM: Cup of Salvation (dir. Jason Wise, streaming on SOMM TV). Work of his has screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, amongst other festivals. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by the American Youth Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Washington and Lee University Symphony, the USC Thornton Symphony, the Norfolk New Music Festival at Yale, etc. Mansour's tone poem for orchestra, Fantasy Noir, was awarded third place in the American Prize.
As a cellist, Alex is an active session musician in Los Angeles (recently played on Black Adam, Dungeons and Dragons, HBO's The Gilded Age, Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham...). He served as principal of American Youth Symphony (2019-2023), and has joined the New York String Orchestra Seminar for their Christmas concerts at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared on NPR's "From the Top". He has studied with Katinka Kleijn (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and during an exchange in London, Richard Lester (Royal College of Music).
As a pianist, Alex arranged and played for Arturo Sandoval's Christmas album, performing with him at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. He attended the 2019 BANFF International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, a program helmed by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, and was the pianist of the USC Jazz Honors Combo 2019-2020. He has studied piano with Russell Ferrante and Jim Trompeter.
