Moscow Convservatory:
          Doctorate in Organ Performance;
          Master's Degree in Organ Performance
                            with Professor Leonid Roizman
          Master's Degree in Piano Performance
                            with Professor Vera Gornostayeva
Moscow Conservatory Music College:
          Bachelor's Degree in Music

          Special Postgraduate Studies:
                            with Jean Guillou, W. Schetelich,
                                    Daniel Roth, and L. Kramer

Alexander says that his interpretations of organ music owe much to the Russian piano school for technique and passion, and he feels immensely
indebted to his
teacher Prof.
Gornostayeva

The International Cultural Diploma of Honor of the American Biographical Institute, 1994
The International Man of the Year 1995--1996 of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge

Professor and Head of Organ Studies
Russian Academy of Music, 1998
Honoured Artist of Russia appointed by the President of the Russian Federation, 1997
Artistic Director of the Soviet Cultural Foundation Organ Centre (later the V Odoyevsky Organ Centre) organising two International Organ Festivals a month long across Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics, 1990--1991
President Moscow Association of Organists 1987--1994
Vice President of the Association of Organists of the USSR 1987--1991
Member of the All-Union Musical Society Council of Experts on organ construction, 1987--91

Royal College of Organists' representative in the Russian Federation

National & International Organ Competitions Jury Membership: Calgary/Lubeck 1994;  St Albans 1991, 1995; Gelsenkirchen 1996
Lectures & Master Classes: Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore; Music and Art University, Vienna; Oundle Festival; Musikhochschule, Hamburg; etc..