Aleksandra Melaniuk

Aleksandra Melaniuk is a Salonen Conducting Fellow in the Negaunee Conducting Program at Colburn School Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Symphony. She was the youngest semifinalist in the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, where she conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, and one of the winners of the 2023 Das Kritische Orchester, led by Forum Dirigieren.

Recent highlights include a debut in the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series, along with serving as associate conductor for Verdi’s La Traviata in Opera Holland Park. As a cover conductor she has worked with Orchestre de Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony (with Esa-Pekka Salonen), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Orquesta Nacional de España. In the 2025–26 season, she makes her debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic. 

With a keen passion for opera, Melaniuk has served 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. The program is devoted to reviving music by composers whose voices were silenced by the oppressive regimes of 20th-century Europe, including Mieczysław Weinberg, whose work she conducted in a dedicated concert. 

In addition to her symphonic and operatic engagements, Melaniuk 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 conductors including Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Nicolas Pasquet, Dalia Stasevska, and James Gaffigan.