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Alvise Casellati is considered one of the emerging talents of the latest years in addition to being an innovator and manager. He is creator and Music Director of Italiana is in the Air (www.operaitalianaisintheair.com – as of November 2016), European and International trademark since September 2019, an event with the aim of promoting knowledge and appreciation of through a free open air event that saw its debut in Central Park, New in July 2017, attended by thousands of people, broadcast by TVs, local radios (NY1, NBC TV, WNYC radio) and RAI TV (Rainews, TG1 and TG2), advertised through an important media and social campaign (220 million impressions, broadcast/online 112 million, listings 107 million are the data of the 2019 New York campaign). The fundraising activity involves American and Italian partners: Intesa Sanpaolo , ENI, Brooks Brothers, San Benedetto Water, Foundation for Italian Art & Culture, ACP Group, Bracco, MSC, etc. Through a collaboration with the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital of New York, children and adults who are part of the Music Therapy program will participate with the aim of future involvement of unprivileged social categories. Through a collaboration with New York Philharmonic, Young Composers Program, the event opens with a short composition of a young composer (age 11/12). Due to Covid-19, the following 2020 performances have been postponed: April 3rd in Bayfront Park , May 29th in Villa Borghese Park, , June 15th in Millennium Park, , June 28th in Central Park, New York, July in Hyde Park, London. The most recent performances include the concert in Regatta Park, Miami, on April 13, 2019, in Central Park, New York, on July 1, 2019 and last October 4, 2019 in Galleria Umberto I in , , with , Accademia del Teatro alla Scala singers and Conservatory of .

His debut in Italy was at the Teatro in in March 2011 where he conducted the Orchestra and Choir for the 150th Anniversary Concert of the Unity of Italy. He has been since then guest to the most important theaters and international music Festivals. February 2020 marked his debut at Mariinsky Theater in San Petersburg with Verdi’s , which led to an invitation to the White Night Festival on June 2020, which was postponed due to Covid-19.

As Resident Conductor of the in , in 2014 he made his opera debut with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and then Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore. He was also Director of the Ensemble Opera Studio (EOS) at Teatro Carlo Felice, where approximately 30 young singers were selected out of more than 600 international candidates to work as the stable company of the Theater in 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons coordinating with the unions, Artistic Director and General Manager of the Theater.

It is under his conducting that actor John Malkovich had his Italian debut in July 2017 at Emilia Romagna Festival with “Report on the Blind” with music by A. Schnittke in Forlì, , Ljubljana and Zagreb, and in 2018 in Jurmala and Bratislava.

He currently collaborates with important international theaters. He conducted in the following musical festivals: Ravello Festival (where he conducted for 3 years the famous Dawn Concert), Cartagena Festival Internacional de Música, Un’Estate da Re (Reggia di Caserta), Venice Festival, Two Worlds Festival, Festival della Valle d'Itria, La Versiliana, Ljubljana Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, MittelFest in Cividale del Friuli, Baltic Music Seasons in Jurmala, Viva Musica Festival in Bratislava, and Gabala International Music Festival a Gabala (Azerbaijan).

Among the institutions and orchestras with which he collaborated: Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in , Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in , Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in , Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Arena di Orchestra, Opera Italiana Symphony Orchestra, Xi’An Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Orchestra Toscanini in , Teatro Verdi in , Teatro Petruzzelli in , Teatro Lirico in , Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra, I Pomeriggi Musicali in , Haydn Orchestra of and , Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Orchestra of Padova & , Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, I Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari, Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Salernitana, Teatro Rendano Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, I Virtuosi Italiani (Verona), Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, New York Chamber Virtuosi etc.

He has worked with internationally acclaimed soloists, such as , Carlo Lepore, René Barbera, Irina Lungu, Arturo Chacon Cruz, Benedetto Lupo, Julian Rachlin, Alessandro Taverna. He collaborated also with many young soloists, prize winners of international competitions, as part of his mission of nurturing talents in music that he then expanded through Opera Italiana is in the Air. To mention a few: Michelle Bradley, , Antonio Poli, Maria Teresa Leva, Marc Bouchkov, Roberto Giordano, Josu de Solaun, Eun- Sun Hong, Gennaro Cardaropoli, etc.

After his diploma as Maestro in violin with Guido Furini at the Conservatory of Music “C. Pollini” in Padova, his native , he specialized with Felice Cusano and Taras Gabora. Thanks to the EU “Erasmus” scholarship, he wrote his thesis in European Copyright Law in Vienna where he also participated in the conducting courses of Leopold Hager at the Vienna Musikhochschule (1998). He received a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Padova (School of Law) in 1998. He then received the EU “Leonardo” scholarship and worked in the Lobby group for European artists in (1999), then received a Master Degree (LL.M.) at Columbia University, School of Law in New York in (2000-2001) focusing on copyright and publishing in the prestigious VLA Journal at Columbia Law School, which was later translated and published in the S.I.A.E. Italian review “Diritto d’Autore” (2002-2003). He was admitted to the New York and Italian Bar in 2002-2003. During the period 2003- 2011, he is General Counsel of ACP Group, a private real estate fund valued 1-2 billion dollars, where as the attorney of the company he managed all the internal legal work (contracts, loans, portfolio, corporate governance, etc.). During the same period, he also became Secretary General and Managing Director of the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture, Secretary General of Friends of San Patrignano USA (raising money for San Patrignano in Italy) and Founder/President of the Venetian Community of New York. He also participated in a course of “Executive Management” at Harvard University (2006) and is later admitted to the evening classes of Orchestral Conducting at the Juilliard School of Music under the guidance of Vincent La Selva (2007-2011). He was also mentored by Piero Bellugi from 2009-2012, of whom he became Assistant to his Orchestral Conducting Masterclass in New York in June 2010. Finally, he was Assistant Conductor to Gustav Kuhn in the 2012- 2013 Season at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl ().