Alexander Negrin was born in Sydney, Australia to European parents and commenced his musical studies there at a very early age, beginning with piano and later adding organ, percussion and vocal studies. He gave his debut at the age of nine, conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Sydney Opera House, thus becoming one of the youngest conductors ever to have conducted a symphony orchestra. Upon finishing school, he relocated to Europe and continued his musical studies in Austria. He has enjoyed close collaboration with Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Franz-Paul Decker and Ruggiero Ricci. Although he initially began his career in the opera house, for many years now Negrin has been principally active in the concert hall. He has conducted concerts all over the globe, most recently in France, Hungary, Australia, Finland and Italy. He has taken the Orchestre National de Lorraine on tour, and these concerts garnered much high praise in France, leading to further concert engagements there. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Viennese classical and German romantic repertoire, but also the French impressionists Debussy and Ravel.