AlexanderShelley
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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
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Alexander Shelley and Canada's National Arts Centre perform Anna Clyne's Midnight Hout
Live from the NACO Live series, Alexander Shelley and Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra perform Anna Clyne’s Midnight Hour. Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada F Credit: Alexander Shelley
PlayingBrahms Symphony No. 4
Live at the Isabel Bader Centre, Alexander Shelley performs Brahms Symphony No.4 with National Arts Centre Orchestra in February 2023. Credit: Alexander Shelley
PlayingEine Alpensinfonie
Alexander Shelley leads Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and members of their Mentorship Program in a performance of Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. Credit: National Arts Centre
PlayingMahler: Symphony No. 1
Mahler’s Symphony No.1 conducted by Alexander Shelley, with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Fellows of the National Arts Centre’s ‘Play it Forward’ Mentorship Program. Credit: National Arts Centre
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Morlock / Tchaikovsky / Strauss: Orchestre Métropolitain
Eglise Très-Saint-Nom-de-JésusApr 2023La précision, la distinction et la beauté de sa gestique est quelque chose que l’on n’a plus vraiment vu depuis Lorin Maazel A precision, distinction and beauty of gesture not seen since Lorin Maazel
- Le Devoir
- 29 April 2023