Music

Bands Alex has participated in: Soule Road Middle School Concert Band, Liverpool Central School District Honor Band, Liverpool High School Concert Band, Concert Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Symphonic Orchestra, Marching Band, Brass Ensemble, Brass Quartet, Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, NYS Honor Band, Jazz Band of America.

Alex played trombone under the instruction of conductors James Dumas, Joseph Philio, and James Spadafore from 2006 to 2010. James Spadafore, Alex's high school band director, played with Marvin Hamlisch, Natalie Cole (daughter of Nat King Cole), Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra Jr., Ben Vareen, Bob Hope, Petula Clark, The Fifth Dimension, The Spinners, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Four Tops, and The Temptations.

Marvin Hamlisch, in the company of Audrey Hepburn, at the time of Alex's graduation in 2010, was one of only ten (10) people in world history to have earned EGOT status (awarded at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). Marvin worked on the scores for The Informant and Behind the Candelabra starring Matt Damon, known for his adaptation of "The Entertainer" for The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, co-wrote the film score "Nobody Does It Better" for Eon Production's James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), contributed to several early Woody Allen films, wrote the original theme music for Good Morning America, wrote "The Way We Were" performed by Barbra Streisand, "The Travelin' Life" song featured on Liza Minnelli's 1964 debut album, and was also Principal Conductor for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC.

Alex has had solo performances of Gian Giacomo Carissimi's (1604-1674) Heart Victorious Cantata and Ray Charles' (1930-2004) Georgia On My Mind.

While in attendance at Liverpool High School, Alex's band department worked with Paul Mercer Ellington of The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra. Wynton Marsalis, Kenny G, and Tom Malone of Paul Shaffer's CBS House Band of The Late Show with David Letterman. Alex Falck performed at the Syracuse International Jazz Festival at Clinton Square, Syracuse, New York in 2008, 2009, 2010. The venue hosted performances by Ray Charles in 2000, Aretha Franklin in 2007 and 2015, and by Kenny G in 2012, 2013, and 2024.

Alex's band performed at the 12th annual LHS Jumpin' Jazz Jam with the Count Basie Orchestra and Chalmette High School of New Orleans, Louisiana in 2009 as part of Operation Southern Comfort for Hurricane Katrina relief.

Alex performed a concert with Wynton Marsalis, Managing Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, on site at Lincoln Center in New York. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year. Alex also participated in the pit orchestra for a Walt Disney production of The King and I, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, held in David H. Koch Theater, as well as accompanied Michael Bublé for a Christmas concert, as he gained worldwide recognition and an audience for his work.

Fun fact: The son of Alex's father's chemistry professor at SU, Benjamin Burtt, holds credits for sound art produced for the original Star Wars film Episode IV: A New Hope.

As a student in the Setnor School of Music, housed in the Crouse College of Fine Arts at Syracuse, Alex played the bass trombone in the concert band practices and recitals. Alex was active in the NCAA Division I Basketball Pep-band at the Carrier Dome Stadium, and also in the brass quintet in Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center.

While a junior at Syracuse University and member of the university basketball pep-band, Sour Citrus Society, Alex participated in filming of the movie Adult World that featured Emma Roberts and John Cusack at the Carrier Dome.

Alex's high school Symphonic Band played Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University in 2007 with Wynton Marsalis, and placed 5th and 22nd in national competition at the Music For All National Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2007 and 2010.