Alexander Wagendristel was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria. He studied flute with Werner Tripp and composition with Friedrich Neumann, Heinrich Gattermeyer and Erich Urbanner at the Vienna Music University.
Since 1987, Alexander Wagendristel is working as first solo flute in the Orchestra of the „Vereinigte Bühnen Wien“.
His works have earned prizes at several international composition competitions and as well recieved awards from the Austrian Ministery of Culture, the City of Vienna, the federal state of Lower Austria and the Theodor Körner Fund. In 1995, his second opera „Der Narr“ was premiered to much critical and public acclaim at the Schönbrunn Palace Theater in Vienna and in 2001, his piano concerto „TYPHON“ was chosen by the Austrian ISCM section for a performance in the Vienna Konzerthaus, which took place in March 2002. The same work was also included in the 2007 ISCM World Music Festival in Hongkong. Other performances of his music include festivals in Austria and various places in Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Macedonia, Italy, Russia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, USA and Taiwan.
In 2003, together with Roland Freisitzer and Thomas Heinisch, he founded the “ensemble reconsil vienna”, which is specialized in new music and has premiered over 100 new works since.