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Aleksandra Melaniuk is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Salonen Conducting Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at Colburn and the San Francisco Symphony. Before assuming these roles, she was the youngest semi-finalist of the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, where she conducted London Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights include a debut with San Francisco Symphony's SoundBox series, along with serving as an associate conductor for Verdi's La Traviata in Opera Holland Park. Her engagements as a cover conductor include working with the Orchestra de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony (with Esa-Pekka Salonen), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España (with Simone Young).
Recent highlights include a debut with San Francisco Symphony's SoundBox series, along with serving as an associate conductor for Verdi's La Traviata in Opera Holland Park. Her engagements as a cover conductor include working with the Orchestra de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony (with Esa-Pekka Salonen), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España (with Simone Young).
Aleksandra was named one of the winners of the 2023 Das Kritische Orchester, led by Forum Dirigieren, and was a semi-finalist at both the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam and the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition. Further notable accolades include reaching the final rounds of the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Constant Lambert/Jette Parker Fellowship at the Royal Opera House, and the Female Conductor Traineeship at Opera North.
Her engagements in Europe have seen her collaborate with major ensembles including the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. In the season 25/26 she will make her debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic.
With a keen passion for opera, Aleksandra has served as an assistant conductor for Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Baltic Opera. In 2023, she worked alongside Sian Edwards on Oliver Leith’s Last Days as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in collaboration with the Royal Opera House’s Jetta Parker Artists Programme.
In addition to her symphonic and operatic engagements, Aleksandra has conducted at the Fiskars Summer Festival & Fiskars Easter Session, organized by the Lead! Foundation, under the mentorship of Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Her ongoing development has been shaped by masterclasses with renowned conductors, including Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet, Dalia Stasevska, James Gaffigan, and Johannes Wildner.