Xander Kritzinger is a choral conductor, tenor, vocal pedagogue, and composer of predominantly vocal music who began his music career as a member of the Drakensberg Boys Choir. It is here that he was appointed student conductor and voice teacher. Xander then enrolled at Stellenbosch University, where he completed his undergraduate, honours, and master’s degrees. During his undergraduate years, he won both the Mabel Quick and Hartman Singing Bursaries. His Master’s degree discusses singing performance, with a focus on research into training the changing or mutating voice.

Since 2008, Xander has been the full-time choral conductor at Stellenbosch High School. Two years later, he was appointed to a full-time position teaching singing, music history, and theory.

Since 2014, Xander has served as conductor of the Viva Cantare community choir from Stellenbosch, and in 2019, he established the Stellies Children’s Choir, a community choir for primary school learners from the greater Stellenbosch area.

Currently, Xander is also a part-time voice lecturer at the Music Department of Stellenbosch University.

As a tenor, Xander specialises in early music and has performed with professional vocal ensembles like the Cape Consort and the Cape Town Soloist Choir. He has performed as a soloist in major works like Bach’s Ascension Oratorio, Handel’s Utrecht Jubilate, and other oratorios.