Aleksandra Melaniuk is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and a Salonen Conducting Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at the Colburn School and the San Francisco Symphony.
Recent highlights include her subscription concert debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, with the San Francisco Symphony in the SoundBox series, and a last minute jump-in to conduct four performances of Verdi's La Traviata at Opera Holland Park. Her work as a cover conductor includes engagements with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, LA Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony (with Esa-Pekka Salonen), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España (with Simone Young). In the season 2025/26 she will make her debut with the LA Phil in the Symphonies for the Youth series.
Recent highlights include her subscription concert debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, with the San Francisco Symphony in the SoundBox series, and a last minute jump-in to conduct four performances of Verdi's La Traviata at Opera Holland Park. Her work as a cover conductor includes engagements with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, LA Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony (with Esa-Pekka Salonen), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España (with Simone Young). In the season 2025/26 she will make her debut with the LA Phil in the Symphonies for the Youth series.
With a keen passion for opera, Aleksandra has served as associate conductor for Verdi's La Traviata in Opera Holland Park, and as 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 Jette Parker Artists Programme.
In March 2025 she joined The Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices - a program devoted to reviving music by composers silenced by the oppressive regimes of 20th-century Europe, including Mieczysław Weinberg, whose work she featured in a dedicated concert she conducted as part of the initiative.
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. She has refined her craft through masterclasses with renowned conductors including Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet, Dalia Stasevska and James Gaffigan.
Aleksandra became the youngest semi-finalist of the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, where she conducted London Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 she was named one of the winners of the 2023 Das Kritische Orchester, led by Forum Dirigieren, and was a semi-finalist of the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam.