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Biography

Alexander Richard Straus-Fausto is a Canadian organist completing his Master’s degree in organ Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, studying organ performance with Dr. Martin Jean and improvisation with Dr. Jeffrey Brillhart. He completed his Bachelor of Music at McGill University Schulich School of Music. His mentors and teachers include Dr. Alcée Chriss, Hans-Ola Ericsson, James David Christie, Rachel Laurin, Dr. Isabelle Demers, Dr. Jonathan Oldengarm, Christian Lane, Thomas Bara, Dr. Peter Nikiforuk, and Joe Carere. Alexander has a broad repertoire of music, going from early fifteenth-century keyboard music to contemporary organ music. Audiences enjoy Straus-Fausto’s exhilarating, clean, colorful, virtuosic, sensitive, and innovative organ performances. He has further expanded the organ’s reach by creating more than 50 original transcriptions of major orchestral works, reflecting his passion for the symphonic organ as a virtually unlimited medium for artistic expression. He is a member of The Diapason’s “20 under 30 Class of 2023,” which recognizes young artists under the age of 30 who have made significant contributions to the fields of organ performance, harpsichord, organ building, carillon, and church music. In 2019, he was named Titular of the acclaimed Organ of Église du Très-Saint-Nom de-Jesus in Montreal.

Alexander undertook a Canada Council-funded summer 2019 concert tour of the UK, playing in historic churches and cathedrals. He has performed in several esteemed venues, including the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington National Cathedral, Woolsey Hall at Yale, Trinity Church Wall Street in Manhattan, Maison Symphonique in Montreal, Princeton University Chapel, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica in Quebec City, and St. James Cathedral in Toronto. With the funding of the Centennial Millennium Fund of the New York City chapter of the American Guild of Organists, he co- founded Festiv’Orgue,  bringing a new audience to the organ at concerts where he performed on the historic symphonic organs of large downtown churches.  He is looking forward to upcoming concerts at Montreal, New York, Florida, Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Westminster Abbey, and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

He is represented by Seven Eight Artists.

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