Alexander Vella Gregory was born in Malta. He studied piano with Paul Borg and Joanne Camilleri, and obtained a Fellowship of the London College of Music (FLCM) diploma in 2013.

He is an Ian Tomlin Scholar and holds a PhD in Music Composition from Edinburgh Napier University where studied with Kenneth Dempster. Alexander is active as a composer, performer, and teacher. His works have been performed in Malta, London, Berlin, Paris, Edinburgh, Vienna, Frankfurt, Prague, Lisbon, Finland, Armenia, Bulgaria, and the USA. His works are published by United Music Publishers, and they are also included in the syllabuses for Trinity College London Exams. He is also very active in the theatre scene, and has written music for various theatrical productions including Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (MADC, 2007), Euripides’ The Bacchae (MADC, 2008), Ospizio (Teatru Anon, Malta Summer Arts Festival, 2010), Każin Barokk (ODC Ensemble, 2018), a Valletta 2018 devised theatre project directed by Greek theatre director Elli Papakonstantinou, and Qamar|Qabar (APS Summer Festival, 2022), a multimedia performance together with visual artist Austin Camilleri. December 2018 saw the premiere of his operetta for voices and wind band called Il-Madonna Tiegħi Aħjar Minn Tiegħek (My Madonna is Better Than Yours) to a libretto by Trevor Zahra. Current projects include the premiere of his cantata Opera Caritatis and his Passio Secundum Matthaeum in 2026. In 2015 two songs from his song cycle Mill-Qamar sal-Qabar were recorded by leading Maltese soprano Miriam Cauchi for her album Riflessi. Another set of songs, this time from the song cycle Verità, were also recorded that same year by soprano Gillian Zammit, mezzo Clare Ghigo and harpist Britt Arend as part of an MPO project. In 2019 his horn quartet Sonata sopra l’Agnus Dei, recorded by the Argotti Ensemble, was released on the album ‘Fantasia’. In 2020 his song cycle Tluq was recorded by Gillian Zammit (Cantilena, Navona Records) and his orchestral suite Riħ was recorded by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (Contemporary Colours, Navona Records). Alexander has participated in several music education projects, including The Carnival of Animals (2009), a dance performance for kids, and The Classical Experience (2009), a project which targeted schools. He has also worked on KantaKantun (2014-19), an education project commissioned by Valletta 2018 Foundation on music and architecture. Recent projects include writing songs for the second season of Żiżi (tribe.mt, 2025-2026), an educational television programme promoting the Maltese language. Alexander is also an active researcher. He is working on an ongoing project on music in early modern Malta, with several published papers on the subject (Parallel Existences, Kite Publications, 2018; Striking a Chord, Malta Libraries, 2025). He is currently working on a research project with the Notarial Archives Foundation on recycled 16th century liturgical manuscripts at the Notarial Archives in Valletta. Other research projects include work on Maltese popular music in the early 20th century (The Lost Voices Songbook, Filfla Records, 2021). Alexander has also carried out work on Maltese festas and public ritual. These include Ritwali (2021), a research project on ritual in Malta, and Minn Fuq l-Ispalla (2021), a project on rhyming verses within the festa ritual in Malta, in conjunction with the Department of Maltese within the University of Malta. Other projects on the subject include scripts for Dizzjunarju tal-Festi (tribe.mt, 2025-2026), a 195-episode series for public television. In 2022 he also published his first volume of poetry, titled Codex Melitensis, with Klabb Kotba Maltin through a grant from the National Book Council. Alexander is also the Artistic Director and a founding member of the Cappella Sanctae Catharinae, Malta’s only male choir, as well as Artistic Director of The Oratories cultural programme at the former Jesuit Church in Valletta since 2022. He is a Trustee of the Ian Tomlin Malta Edinburgh Music Scholarship Fund, an Assistant Professor at Triagon Academy, and a visiting lecturer with the University of Malta.