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Alexandra developed her early musical interests as a violinist and pianist, before going on to read Music at the University of Oxford, where a particular focus of her scholarship was the psychology of musical performance and listening.  Following this, she remained in Oxford to complete a Graduate Diploma in Law, graduating with Distinction.

Upon moving to London in 2012, Alexandra took her first job in the classical music business as an Assistant Artist Manager at Harrison/Parrott.  She joined the team of International Classical Artists in 2013, where she worked closely with Chairman Stephen Wright across all fields of artist management, orchestral touring, project creation & production, consultancy, and audio/audio-visual media projects.  During this time, she enjoyed producing major international tours for orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and working closely as a consultant to such organisations as the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.  Alexandra’s passion has always been for artist management, where she has had the pleasure of managing such revered icons as Kyung Wha Chung and Sir James Galway, building swiftly rising careers for artists such as Alena Baeva and Joseph Bastian, and signing young prize-winning talents such as Moné Hattori and Anna Tsybuleva.

Alexandra became a Director of International Classical Artists (renamed Wright Music Management) in 2018, at the age of 28.  She launched Knight Classical Ltd in January 2020, where she now enjoys working closely with a wide range of management clients and creative projects.

Alongside music, Alexandra has a long-held fascination for foreign languages.  She speaks French and German, and has recently taken up the challenge of learning Russian.

Sinead spent 10 years at Harrison Parrott working with many of the world’s finest orchestras, international conductors and soloists to all corners of the globe. She also specialised in touring contemporary dance, opera and world music, conceiving and realizing amongst other projects a 5-day festival of contemporary traditional Irish music for the Cite de la Musique in Paris, Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. She was appointed Associate Director of Harrison Parrott in 2002 leaving to establish O’Carroll Artist & Project Management in 2005. Consultancy and Project Management play an important role in Sinead’s working life. She co-founded the Windsor Festival International String Competition, the Bishop Instrument & Bows International London String Masterclass series, ‘St Edward’s Talks’ series and has worked with artists such as violinist, Tasmin Little to develop her ‘Naked Violin’ project which reached hundreds of thousands of listeners, young people and adults through performances and outreach activities.

In addition to her passion for music and dance of all genres, Sinead enjoys studying, recently gaining a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature from the Open University and is now studying towards a Diploma in Counselling.

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Stephen Wright (formerly Managing Director of Harold Holt and Founding Managing Director of IMG Artists Europe) has enjoyed an illustrious career of more than forty-five years, during which time he personally managed the careers of Semyon Bychkov, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mariss Jansons, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Yevgeny Svetlanov, and Yuri Temirkanov, amongst others. Stephen has also acted as an advisory consultant to such institutions as Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Oslo Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Tonhalle Zürich. Internationally recognised for reassessing business models and developing new media avenues, Stephen also set up the BBC Legends CD label, and produced a number of television documentaries such as the celebrated Art of Conducting, as well as filmed portraits of Ferenc Fricsay, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Arturo Toscanini.