Alexander Ledkovsky

Alexander Borisovich Ledkovsky (June 3, 1944 – December 24, 2004) was an American conductor, composer, and music editor of Russian descent. Life Alexander Ledkovsky was born in Teupitz, Germany during war-time to parents Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky (née Fasolt) and Boris Mikhailovich Ledkovsky, a prominent choral director and composer/arranger of Russian Orthodox Church music. Having emigrated to the United States in 1951, Alexander was educated at Trinity School and Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. in Music. Although he developed a successful career as a computer expert and software developer, his life’s love was his work as a musician of the Russian Orthodox Church. Having studied choir direction both at university and under his father’s tutelage, he took on responsibilities as assistant choirmaster at the Russian Orthodox Synod Cathedral “Our Lady of the Sign” located on Park Avenue at 93rd Street in New York. He also ran a secondary choir for the cathedral’s English-speaking parish in the late 1960s. When his father’s health declined, Alexander assumed full responsibility for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)’s flagship choir, on Forgiveness Sunday i