Raised between Warsaw and Edinburgh, Aleksandra Melaniuk is currently a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Salonen Conducting Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at Colburn Conservatory and the San Francisco Symphony, where she assists Esa-Pekka Salonen internationally.

As a cover conductor, her upcoming engagements are with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Orquesta nacional de España. This season she also serves as an assistant conductor for Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Baltic Opera.