American conductor George Edward Stelluto is known for his engaging, energetic, and insightful performances of repertoire ranging from the Baroque era to the present day. His broad musical interests and abilities take him around the world as a guest conductor and his services are in great demand from a wide variety of artistic organizations. In addition to his new position with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, he is the Resident Conductor at the Juilliard School, the Assistant Conductor of the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony, and is an advisor to Sinfonia por La Vida in Ecuador – a new orchestra based on Venezuela’s Il Sistema program. A versatile conductor comfortable in many styles and genres, George Stelluto gives frequent performances at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orchestra and has collaborated with the Dance, Vocal, Pre-College, and Jazz divisions at Juilliard in projects ranging from Spring Dances@Juilliard to the Juilliard Opera Center’s “Trilogy” production of operas by Mussorgsky, Krenek, and Fleischman.

This past season, he appeared at Alice Tully Hall, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and New York’s Central Park with The Juilliard Orchestra, The Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, ISO, and the Tres Americas Chamber Orchestras as well as members of the Vienna Philharmonic. He returned to Ecuador this spring to lead the National Philharmonic of Ecuador as well as Sinfonia por la Vida. Maestro Stelluto’s guest appearances throughout the United States and Europe include The Juilliard Orchestra, Ukrainian National Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Transylvania State Philharmonic (Romania), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, Nevada Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Boston’s Alea III, and Juilliard’s AXIOM Ensemble. He made his Avery Fisher Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in May 2008 in an all-symphonic program of Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. His international debut was at the Kiev International Music Festival in 2000 where he gave the Ukrainian premiere of Samuel Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra. Subsequent acclaimed premieres there include William Schuman's Symphony #5, Barber’s First Essay, and Ewazen’s Chamber Symphony. He also worked extensively with the Central Conservatory Orchestra in Beijing as part of the conducting staff for The Juilliard Orchestra's 2008 tour of China and as cover conductor for the Juilliard Orchestra’s 2005-2006 100th Anniversary Tours of Europe and America - premiering Senderovas’ Fanfare at the Berlin Konzerthaus. From 1998-2006, he served as Music Director of the Las Vegas Music Festival. Call Back Magazine wrote of his performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: "Vocally, musically, and dramatically it didn’t miss a beat. … Stelluto conducted with taste, balance, and firm control of players and singers".

Maestro Stelluto’s performances, interviews, and recordings have been broadcast on radio and television throughout the United States and Europe. He has collaborated with solo artists such as Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Edgar Meyer, and Samuel Ramey. His numerous contemporary premieres include works by Philippe Bodin, Virko Baley, Huang Ruo, Paul Desenne, and Theodore Antoniou. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the Juilliard Orchestra have performed his orchestral reduction of Schreker’s overture to the opera Die Gezeichneten and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform it this season. His reduction of the entire opera will be premiered by the Los Angeles Opera in April 2010 and published by Universal Edition, Vienna. He has published several co-authored articles on leadership (Leadership Quarterly, 2004) and given presentations about conductors as leadership models for business organizations. He has served as a board member and consultant to many American and international arts organizations and delivered speeches throughout the United States and Europe on “Building Cultural Infrastructure”©; a series of presentations on ensuring the future of the Arts.

George Stelluto is Juilliard’s first Artist Diploma recipient in conducting, the first Resident Conductor at the Juilliard School, and the first ever Assistant Conductor at the Ravinia Festival. He also holds two Master's Degrees (Violin & Conducting) from the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Violin from West Virginia University, summa cum laude. Among his numerous awards are the State of Nevada Regents Creativity Award and The Bruno Walter Memorial Fellowship at Juilliard. He has participated in many summer festivals both as a conductor and chamber musician, including Ravinia, Aspen, Peter Britt, Focus!, The Quartet Program, Kiev International, Long Beach, and Ukrainian Summer.