About Alex Ehredt

Dr. Alex C. Ehredt is a composer and saxophonist whose works have been recognized internationally for their clarity, structure, and energy. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad by professional and university ensembles.

Ehredt’s compositions have earned recognition across the national concert band and wind ensemble community. His Blue-Sky Fanfare was awarded the 2025 Dallas Winds Fanfare Competition, and his wind ensemble work Drive received the 2023 WASBE Composition Competition, with a performance at the 2023 World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Conference in Brazil. Drive was also named a finalist for The American Prize in Composition—Band/Wind Ensemble (Professional Division), 2025. His Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble earned the James E. Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Composers from the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association and was a finalist for the 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

Among his other significant works are Assimilation, premiered by the Trio de Minaret on the University of Tampa’s Charlene A. Gordon Concert Series in 2024, and Sticks of Fire, commissioned by the University of Redlands Trombone Studio for performance at the 2018 International Trombone Festival and later performed by the Northern Illinois University Trombone Ensemble at the 2022 International Trombone Festival. His collaborations include Damselfly, created with the St. Leo University Music Faculty as part of a research project on creativity in higher education, and Rainy Season, a chamber work with poetry by St. Leo faculty poet Anne Barngrover.

His current projects include Finding Earth, a new work for wind ensemble, and a saxophone-and-piano reduction of his concerto

As a performer, Ehredt is an active member of the Florida Wind Band and performs with the University of Tampa Faculty Saxophone Quartet. His experiences as a saxophonist inform his compositional approach, lending his works a natural understanding of phrasing, breath, and instrumental color.

He studied composition with Dr. Anthony Suter and Dr. Laura Schwendinger, earning degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (D.M.A.), the University of Redlands (M.M.), and the University of Tampa (B.A.). Ehredt currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Tampa, where he teaches music theory, orchestration, and composition.