an Honorary Citizen (Cittadino Onorario) of the city of Bari, Italy. He received this honor in a ceremony immediately following a performance he conducted with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari in 2009. In 2022, Alexander Frey received three knighthoods: Knight of Malta (KM, SMOM), Knight of the Order of Saint John (KStJ), United Kingdom; and Knight of the Guardians of Peace (Cavaliere dei Guardiani di Pace), Italy. He is an official Steinway Artist. Alexander Frey is of Greek and Swiss (Alsatian) descent with family currently residing in Greece, Mulhouse and Paris. Conducting Alexander Frey was Principal Conductor of the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra from 1996 to 2004, and during that time was the only American music director of an Italian symphony orchestra. He was appointed conductor of the Bohemia Symphony Orchestra (later named the Stern Chamber Orchestra) in Prague, Czech Republic from 2000–2006. Frey's many guest conducting appearances have encompassed performances with over 50 orchestras, opera houses, and festivals on 5 continents, including the Rio de Janeiro Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Athens State Symphony Orchestra (Greece), Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Rome Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Royal Symphony Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México (State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra), Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Athens State Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Symphonium Veneto (Padua), and the Sibelius Symphony Orchestra among others. He also conducted Ensemble Europa (members of the Israel Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper orchestras) in sold-out concerts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Berlin commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps. In 2006, he conducted Prague's official orchestral gala concert (with the Stern Chamber Orchestra) celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday on the anniversary day of the composer's birth. In 2010, he was the only American conductor invited to conduct an Italian orchestra for the Festa della Repubblica, the Italian independence day on which all the major orchestras in Italy give concerts in honor of the occasion. Frey has also been Music Director for major productions at the Edinburgh International Festival (where he was awarded the festival's Critics' Prize), the Wiener Festwochen (Theater an der Wien, Vienna), Venice Festival (Teatro La Fenice), Holland Festival, the Fifth European Festival, the Copenhagen Opera Festival, Karlin Theater (Prague), Varna State Opera, Opera Română Craiova and the International Festival Elena