Alexander Trampas was born in 1982 in Athens, Greece. At a very young age he had his first experience with the violin, and later piano and guitar, but the bass was the one that inspired him the most.

His influences include people who have inspired him over the years, recordings he listens to, live performances he has attended or played in, and anything musical or not, but with a deep meaning under its surface.

During his career as a bass player and composer/arranger he has collaborated on and off stage with musicians like Larry Monroe, Greg Badolato, Greg Hopkins, The Zulal Trio, The Esterhazy String Quartet, Theodore Antoniou, The Women of the World, Ron Savage, Dennis Montgomery III, Ricardo Monzon, Felice Pomeranz, Mario Frangoulis, Maestro Jorge Calandrelli, Dulce Pontes, Tammy McCann, George Perris, Pavlos Pavlidis, Giota Nega, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Marina Satti, Joe Tornabene, Eriko Daimo, Yannis Papatriantafyllou and Dimitris Tsakas, among others.

He holds a quadruple degree in Jazz Composition, Performance, Film Scoring and Classical Composition from Berklee College of Music, and a dual diploma in Electric Bass and Upright Bass from Philippos Nakas Conservatory. He also received diplomas in Harmony, Counterpoint and Fugue, from Rythmos Music School as a student of Manolis Kavalos. He is fortunate enough to have studied composition and performance with great musicians like Greg Hopkins, John Bavicchi, John Lockwood, and Bob Pilkington. In 2022 he obtained a diploma in Classical Contrabass, after studying with Tasos Kasaglis.

In 2014 he was asked to be the music director of the globally acclaimed classical vocalist, named “Best Male Classical Crossover Artist”, Mario Frangoulis, and has directed Mario's shows in the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, MO as an opening act for Smokey Robinson, the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, MA and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York, NY, where Mario Frangoulis was awarded for his passionate advocacy of Hellenism, at the 19th Annual Phidippides Award Gala Dinner.

As an arranger, he has collaborated with composers such as George Hatzinasios, Stamatis Spanoudakis, Evanthia Rebutsika, Pavlos Pavlidis, and others, and has arranged for various types of ensembles, including the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra, the Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra, the Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki, Marina Satti and Fonés, and Mario Frangoulis' Big Band, among others.

He has been involved in various ways in many different projects as a composer, sideman or arranger, and also has lead the Pocket Jazz Orchestra, a ten-piece band that performed mostly his original music. He believes that what makes his music beautiful is a combination of the written and the improvised element, the personal and the collective "composition" in a way that depends equally on the performance and the players as well as the composer.

His lifelong dream is to write and perform music while traveling around the world. Usually he spends his time composing, practicing the bass, jamming or rehearsing with other musicians or sequencing and listening to music.