Aleksandra Melaniuk

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. She assists Esa-Pekka Salonen at the San Francisco Symphony and internationally.

Melaniuk has worked with the London Symphony as a semifinalist of the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition; was a winner of the 2023 Das Kritische Orchester, led by Forum Dirigieren; and was a semifinalist of the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam. She has reached the final rounds in the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship with the BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Constant Lambert Fellowship/Jetta Parker Ballet Conductor with Royal Opera House, and the Female Conductor Traineeship at Opera North.

She made her professional debut with the Silesian Philharmonic in their For the Young concert series and has also conducted the Flanders Symphony, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Lithuanian State Symphony, and Moravska Filharmonie Olomouc. Having deep interest in opera, she worked on Oliver Leith’s Last Days with Sian Edwards in a collaboration between the BPYA Program and the Jetta Parker Artists Program at the Royal Opera House. In recent seasons, she has served as an assistant conductor at the Baltic Opera for Carmen and La Clemenza di Tito.

Melaniuk has conducted at the Fiskars Summer Festival and Fiskars Easter Session, organized by the Lead!Foundation and led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Additionally, she has participated in conducting masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet, Dalia Stasevska, James Gaffigan, Johannes Wildner, and Claire Gibault.