Barry Alexander is the Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Alexander & Buono International. The company was founded after Mr. Alexander, a former public relations executive, was hired by Cosmo Buono to promote The Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition which began in 2003.

Mr. Alexander is a graduate of Princeton University and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He began his musical career at age three and gave his first recital at age four. His rapid advancement through various private schools as an elementary student led to him starting his university career at age fourteen and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree at eighteen.

Upon completing his graduate studies in English Literature, he auditioned for the Mozarteum and was accepted immediately. Focusing on lieder by Mozart and Schubert, he began to make progress in an operatic career, performing recitals throughout Europe. In 1978 he was invited by the American Embassy and the late Ambassador John Gunther Dean to sing concerts in Beirut, Lebanon, in conjunction with the American University at Beirut and Afif Bulos, the voice teacher and musicologist with whom Alexander studied while at Princeton. This led to engagements in Europe as well as Africa and helped to establish Alexander as a fine interpreter of Mozart and some of the more ornate repertoire of Händel and Rossini.

After several years of performing in Europe, Alexander returned to the United States where he joined the Michigan Opera Theatre and also continued to perform recitals. It was during this time he made his Carnegie Hall Recital debut singing works by Mozart and Gluck, in addition to lieder, also performing the entire motet Exsultate, jubilate, and the aria "Fuor del mar" from Idomeneo, considered by some to be among the most challenging works in the coloratura literature.

Alexander concluded his professional singing career after more than fifteen years following an engagement as a principal singer with Poland's Warsaw Chamber Opera. He moved permanently to New York, where he worked briefly as a translator, before starting his own public relations firm for classical musicians. It was during this time he met Cosmo Buono and formed their present partnership which helps to support the work of classical musicians throughout the world with annual competitions for Piano, Voice, Strings, and Flute and The Alexander & Buono Festival of Music.

Alexander is also President of The Alexander & Buono Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation he helped to co-found in 2006, which raises money for scholarships and study grants for winners of ABC through The Annual ABC Gala held each year at Carnegie Hall.