At the age of 17 Simone Alex won the first prize in the VdMK singing competition in the category "without training". She then studied singing as a scholarship-holder in Detmold and Hamburg.

Master classes with Birgit Nilsson, Judith Beckmann und Elisabeth Gruemmer were decisive for her development. With guest contracts she was engaged as a lyric mezzo-soprano at the theaters of Detmold, Muenster, Hamburg and Lueneburg before she chose to devote her efforts exclusively to concert music.

From 1989 to 1996 she was a firmmember of the RIAS - Kammerchor Berlin, where she was able to contribute to musical highlights of the international concert world with conductors such as Abbado, Barenboim, Albrecht and others..

In the fields of historical performance practice (Harnoncourt, Réné Jacobs, Marcus Creed) and contemporary music she gained valuable experience in numerous concerts as well as CD- and radio recordings.

At the Schwetzinger Festival she was a soloist in the premier performance of Violeta Dinescu. She also was heard at the Biennale Venice with works of Luigi Nono and Wolfgang Rihm.

The works of Jewish composers murdered in Ausschwitz were disclosed to her in a special way by the conductor Israel Yinon. It was under his baton that she sang the first German performance of Hans Krasa's "Symphony with Alto Solo" in Berlin.

This aspect of her work was set forth by concerts in Theresienstadt/Prag as well as in radio recordings of Krasa's "Gallows Songs for Big Orchestra and Alto" with the BBC Manchester Orchestra. A recording of Victor Ullmann's violin quartets with alto is also planned.

Simone Alex is a concert singer in demand - especially in southern Germany - and is often engaged by baroque orchestras because of the slim quality of her voice.

Since 1996 she has also been devoting herself enthusiastically to vocal pedagogy. (see "Voice Development")

She is married and has a daughter.