Alex Fontaine is an experienced freelance musician, both within Australia and internationally, with a career including professional engagements in symphony, opera, ballet, musical theatre orchestras as well as chamber music and circus. In 2022, he returned home to Australia after performing as oboe + cor anglais soloist and character with Cirque du Soleil at Disney World Orlando Florida.

Since returning he has settled back into performing as a casual musician regularly with The Opera Australia Orchestra with whom he has been a member for over thirty seasons of opera and ballet since 2012. Alex also performs regularly with the Sydney Philharmonia, Sydney Symphony, The Metropolitan Orchestra and full-time professional musical theatre shows including Les Miserables, Aladdin, The Wizard of Oz, Sweeney Todd, Mary Poppins, Wicked and Amadeus.