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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Alexander

Music Director: National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa Artistic and Music Director: Artis—Naples, Florida Principal Associate Conductor: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London

Alexander Shelley is Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alexander was also recently appointed Artistic and Music Director of Artis­­—Naples in Florida, which will see him provide artistic leadership for Naples Philharmonic, as well as for the entire multidisciplinary arts organisation. This position began at the start of season 2024/25.

He is also Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen’s ECHO and Deutsche Gründerpreis-winning “Zukunftslabor”. In August 2017 Alexander concluded his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Nürnberger Symphoniker, a position he held since September 2009.

Unanimous winner of the 2005 Leeds Conductors' Competition, he has since worked regularly with the leading orchestras of Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Orchester Hannover, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gothenburg Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Milwaukee, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras.

Alexander’s operatic engagements have included The Merry Widow and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (Den Kongelige Opera); La bohème (Opera Lyra/National Arts Centre), Iolanta (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen), Così fan tutte (Opéra national de Montpellier), and The Marriage of Figaro (Opera North) in 2015. In 2017 he led a co-production of Harry Somers’ Louis Riel with the NACO and Canadian Opera Company.

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
SPHERE 2024 'Listening to the Earth' SPHERE 2024 explores rivers and waterways, engaging the senses with performances, talks and visual art. It reflects also on our fragile relationship with Mother Earth and on how the confluence of art, science and ethics will inform the coming chapters in our shared history. National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa Alexander Shelley
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Artis-Naples, Florida
Season Opening 'Pictures with Alexander' The 2024-25 Naples Philharmonic Masterworks series commences with Alexander Shelley’s first concert as the artistic and music director of Artis—Naples. Naples Philharmonic Alexander Shelley
Nov 2024
Cadogan Hall, London
'Tribute to a Hungarian Legend' Smetana The Bartered Bride: Overture Péter Eötvös Cziffra Psodia (UK premiere) Brahms Symphony No.2 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Alexander Shelley Conductor János Balázs Piano

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