Alexander Bernstein has performed in sixteen countries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Bernstein has earned top prizes from international competitions in the U.S., Ireland, Austria, Germany and Italy. He also attended numerous summer festivals and was the pianist for the resident new music ensembles at the Aspen Musical Festival and Tanglewood Music Center. As a devotee of new music he also recorded a CD of solo piano works by the Irish composer Ryan Molloy. 

Bernstein holds a doctorate from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Ireland, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the Royal Irish Academy of Music and an artist diploma from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. 

Bernstein has recently been named the new full-time professor of piano at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. In addition to a full teaching schedule, this concert season includes solo and concerto performances in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, Washington state, Ireland and Northern Ireland, and a tour of Chile with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. Along with those performances will be masterclasses, outreach programs and composition workshops designed to bring pianists and composers together.