About / PL
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.
She is one of the winners of the 2023 Das Kritische Orchester, led by Forum Dirigieren, a semi-finalist of the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam and a semi-finalist of the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, during which she worked with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Aleksandra has reached the final rounds in the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Constant Lambert Fellowship/Jetta Parker Ballet Conductor with Royal Opera House, and Female Conductor Traineeship at Opera North.
In Europe she has already worked with such orchestras as the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. Having deep interest in opera, she has participated in preparations for Puccini’s La Rondine in the Silesian Opera and Szymanowski's King Roger at the Baltic Opera. In 2023 she worked on Oliver Leith’s Last Days with Sian Edwards, a collaboration between the BPYA Program and the Jetta Parker Artists Program at the Royal Opera House.
She has conducted during the Fiskars Summer Festival & Fiskars Easter Session, organised by Lead!Foundation, and both led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Additionally, she has participated in numerous conducting masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet, Dalia Stasevska, James Gaffigan or Johannes Wildner as mentors.