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Alexander Baillie
English cellist
- From
- Stockport, United Kingdom
- Since
- 1956–present
- Releases
- 9
About
Alexander Baillie (born 6 January 1956) is an English cellist, recognised internationally as one of the finest of his generation. He is currently professor of cello at the Bremen Hochschule and previously taught at Birmingham Conservatoire, as well as at various summer schools in the UK and Europe. He is one of the main cello professors at the Cadenza Summer School, and also runs an annual cello summer course in Bryanston.
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Baillie has worked as a concerto soloist all around the world. He has been a soloist at the BBC Proms numerous times, having performed the Schumann, Delius and Beethoven Triple Concertos, as well as various premieres of contemporary works. British Orchestras he has performed with include the London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. He has also directed and performed the Haydn and Boccherini concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra.
Baillie and his wife, the painter and former violinist Christel Baillie, are the parents of violinists and violists Max Baillie and Helena Baillie.
Discography
Albums
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Cello Concerto / Enigma Variations
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A Winter Idyll / Elegy / Intrada / A Song of the Night / Interlude (Sita) / Invocation / The Lure / Morning of the Year Dances
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Hymnus Paradisi / Fantasia for Cello & Orchestra
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 / Cello Concerto No. 1
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Cello Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Symphonic Studies
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The Concerto in Europe
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Spring Fire
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Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
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- ISNI
- 0000000082106837
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 9 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.