Alexander Sigman (b. 1980) completed his doctorate in Music Composition at Stanford University, having studied primarily with Brian Ferneyhough.  He pursued further postgraduate study with Chaya Czernowin at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and attended the one-year intensive course of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands) during 2007-2008. Prior to Stanford, Sigman obtained a BM in Music Composition and a BA in Cognitive Sciences from Rice University.

 He has received performances at major international venues and festivals, including Centre Acanthes, June in Buffalo, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Abbaye de Royaumont, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the MATA Festival, the Klangraum Festival (Stuttgart), and Musica Nova Helsinki. His music has been performed throughout Europe and the US by such renowned ensembles as the Arditti Quartet, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, and Ensemble Ascolta, as well as soloists such as Magnus Andersson, Eliot Gattegno, and ELISION Ensemble cellist Séverine Ballon. His works have been featured on several recordings, released on the Innova and Spektral labels, and broadcast on Radio France, WOBC, and KTRU.

 Sigman’s electroacoustic, video, and multi-media compositions have been featured on programs at the CNMAT (UC Berkeley), CCRMA (Stanford), DNK-Amsterdam, ICMC, the Sonorities Festival (Belfast), the In-Sonora Muestra (Madrid), SoundLAB VI (Cologne), and the FILE Hipersonica Festival (Sao Paulo), among others. 

Since his undergraduate studies, Sigman has received several commissions, awards and grants, including the American Composers’ Forum Encore grant, Columbia University’s Bearns Prize, a Fulbright scholarship to the Netherlands, a Julius F. Jezek commission prize nomination, as well as awards from ASCAP. In June 2007, he was Composer-in-Residence at the Musiques Démesurées festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France.  Furthermore, Sigman has been awarded residency fellowships by the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and the Djerassi Foundation. 

 Also active as a researcher, Sigman has also authored several articles on various subjects, including a book chapter on music and aesthetics (to be published in an anthology edited by Steven Takasugi and Wieland Hoban) and a study of early Schönberg lieder, conducted at the Schönberg-Center in Vienna. He has presented lectures at numerous conferences and institutions, including Harvard University, the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, the Aspen Institute, the American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter conference, University of Leeds, Edinburgh Napier University, and Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece).  Since 2007, Sigman has been Co-Editor of the Search Journal for New Music and Culture (www.searchnewmusic.org)  and Managing Director of the 12-member Dutch ensemble Modelo62 (www.modelo62.com).