Alexander Svetnitsky-Ehrenreich was born in Vienna in 2002 and received his first clarinet lessons from Ivo Warenitsch at the age of six. He then studied with Francesco Negrini at the Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch and with Reinhard Wieser at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität Wien. Since 2021 he has been a student of Alexander Neubauer, also at the MUK.
His experience as an orchestral musician includes engagements with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the International Orchestra Institute Attergau founded by the Vienna Philharmonic, the Southwest German Philharmonic, the Vienna Concert-Verein, the great recreation Orchestra Graz and various others. He received lessons from Andrea Götsch, Alex Ladstätter, Stefan Neubauer, Norbert Täubl, Patrick Messina and Matthias Schorn, among others. He also participated in a CD recording with the Bläserphilharmonie Salzburg, with Wenzel Fuchs and Thomas Holzmann, among others. As a soloist, he has appeared on stage several times with the Dornbirn Youth Symphony Orchestra.
In the spring of 2021, Alexander Svetnitsky-Ehrenreich achieved the title of both state and national winner at the Austrian competition “Prima la Musica” with the highest number of points. In the same year he won a prize at the “Musica Juventutis” competition, which enabled him to give a solo concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
In March 2022 he won the pre-selection for the Eurovision Young Musicians contest 2022, as a result of which he was chosen by ORF to represent Austria and entered the final. This took place in Montpellier, France, where he soloed an excerpt from Carl Maria von Weber’s 2nd Clarinet Concerto with the Montpellier Festival Orchestra.
Alexander Svetnitsky-Ehrenreich joined the Orchestra Academy of the Bregenz Festival, newly founded by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, in the summer of 2022. He also participated in the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival and also played in the stage orchestra.