Maestro Alan Aurelia
Conductor - Alion Baltic International Orchestra
(United States)


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Conducting
Languages Spoken:
  • English



Based in New York City, one of the most diverse and culturally rich environments for the arts and the many artists it supports, Maestro Alan Aurelia has distinguished himself as a conductor, an arts advocate, educator and administrator. He is currently the music director of the Richmond County Orchestra, New American Youth Ballet and artistic director/conductor of the Riverside Opera Company.

He received full scholarships and fellowships to study at the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut and the Conductors Institute at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has served on the music faculties of Wagner College, the College of Staten Island and the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Describing Maestro Aurelia’s virtuosity, composer and conductor Lukas Foss stated that “He conducts very naturally, effortlessly and clearly enabling all in the orchestra to follow every musical nuance and inflection quite easily”.

At the conclusion of a concert that Maestro Aurelia conducted in Italy, Joel Cohen of the Staten Island Advance wrote that “he was called back five times for bows by a standing ovation audience” and Michael Fressola, also from the Advance, noted that “The concert strikes a multicultural chord with the audience”.

Under his baton, the Richmond County Orchestra was selected to perform at the Guggenheim Museum’s NY.2022, a multi-media creation by Parisian visual artist Dominique Gonzalez-Forester with music by the Berlin-based composer, Ari Benjamin Meyers, which received a rave review from the New York Times. Maestro Aurelia has also performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and he has been asked to conduct in Carnegie Hall as well as in Miami, Florida and Mexico. He has been a guest conductor for the Bacau Philharmonic from Romania during Tuscany’s “Festival Sinfonico di Massa” and for the Kiev Strings in Montegnioso.

In addition to performing the standard symphonic orchestral literature, Maestro Aurelia conducts the opera, ballet, premiers of new compositions as well as the music of Broadway. As a consequence of his versatility, he is comfortable in an array of different genres and creates interesting and exciting programs that appeal to a broad audience.

Maestro Aurelia’s Side-by-Side program for students stands out as a significant marker of his dedication to music education, which is also reflected in the establishment of the RCO Musicians Contest and the Instrument Petting Zoo, programs that he initiated as music director of the Richmond County Orchestra that actively support music education for young students in the New York metropolitan area.

He has received several awards and honors for excellence in performance, education and community relations. He has appeared on many local radio and TV programs in New York and serves as chairman of the Board for Tribeca Music and Art in Manhattan.


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