The highlights for the season 2011/2012 include a premiere of Forza del Destino with Michael Thalheimer at the Vlaamse Opera, premieres of Tristan and Isolde, Luisa Miller, Marriage of Figaro and Turandot at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, as well as revivals of Rigoletto and Traviata at the Semper Opera Dresden, Don Carlos at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Tosca at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. On the concert podium he will conduct 9 full concert programmes spanning a large repertoire ranging from Mozart to Mahler.

In the last 3 seasons he has been a regular guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tosca, La Bohème), the Staatsoper Hamburg (La Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen and Madama Butterfly), the Semper Opera Dresden (La Bohème, Macbeth, Barbiere di Siviglia, Faust and Fledermaus), the opera house Cologne (La Bohème) and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf (Tosca, La Bohème, Nabucco, Zauberflöte, new production Turco in Italia, Ballo in maschera). He also conducted 2 highly acclaimed premieres at the Vlaamse Opera, Richard Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten (stage director: Marco Arturo Marelli) and Don Carlos (stage director: Peter Konwitchny), as well as a new production of Faust at the Semper Opera in Dresden.

His future plans for 2012/2013 include his debut with La Bohème in London's Covent Garden as well as a new production of Madama Butterfly at the Staatsoper Hamburg and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 2013/2014, he has been invited by Keith Warner to conduct his new production of Verdi's Macbeth in Copenhagen, a new production of Puccini's Il Triticco at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and the premiere of Otello at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile.
Alexander Joel has been guesting regularly in such renowned opera houses as the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (where he conducted Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Fledermaus during 3 consecutive seasons), at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Tokyo New National Theatre, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Opera in Cologne, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile and the Semper Opera in Dresden.
Alexander Joel has been general music director at the Staatstheater Brunswick since the 2007/2008 season.

He also regularly conducts numerous renowned orchestras on the concert podium, such as the DSO Berlin, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Duisburger Philharmoniker, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, RSO Wien, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orchèstre de Nancy. He has worked with prominent stage-directors such as Nicolas Joel, Marco Arturo Marelli, Peter Konwitschny and Keith Warner and has conducted such prominent soloists as Yuri Bashmet, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Rudolf Buchbinder, Sabine Meyer as well as singers like Juan Diego Florez, Sir Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, Violetta Urmana, Diana Damrau or Catherine Malfitano.
Alexander Joel was first Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf from 2001 till 2007 where he conducted a very large repertoire of over 35 different operas including 9 new productions. At the age of 24 he gave his debut at the Opera in Nürnberg and his first steady engagements led him to Kapellmeister positions at the Stadttheater Baden, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and at the Wiener Volksoper.

In 1990 Alexander Joel began studying piano (and later also composition) at the Vienna Academy of Music before starting his conducting studies in 1991 at the Vienna Conservatory of Music (under Prof. Mark and Prof. Schwarz) where he graduated with Honours in 1996. He was a prize winner of the European Conducting Competition in Spoleto (Italy) that same year. During his studies he attended numerous masterclasses (including conducting masterclasses in Tanglewood in 1996). After that he worked as an assistant to Julius Rudel, Muhai Tang (Royal Opera Stockholm) and Gustav Kuhn.