Alvise Casellati (; born in Padua on March 20, 1973) is an Italian conductor. Biography Alvise Maria Casellati, born in Padua, is the son of Maria Elisabetta Alberti and Giambattista Casellati, both attorneys. Music was always part of his family tradition: his great-great grandfather received a Honorary Diploma in Composition from the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna based on Rossini's recommendation while his great grandfather was President of the Venice Conservatory of Music, a friend with the Wagner family, Arrigo Boito, Wolf-Ferrari etc.. Alvise also fell in love with music and at age 9 starts studying violin and is later admitted to the Conservatory of Music in Padua where he holds a scholarship for all 10 years of his attendance. Nonetheless, his family's values place more importance to traditional school above all other kinds of studying. He knows the rule, adheres to it but without abandoning his true passion: music. With great dedication, he goes to classical highschool (gymnasium) and Law School while attending the Conservatory of Music. He graduated as Maestro of Violin in 1994 and was awarded a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. In 2000 he decides to move to New York to specialize, and in 2001 he received a master's degree from Columbia University (LL.M. at Columbia Law School) publishing a thesis on copyright on the Columbia VLA Journal of Law & the Arts. This article is later translated in Italian and published in the "Diritto d'Autore" (2003) (the Italian "Copyright" Review). In 2003 he is admitted to the Bars of New York and Italy. In 2003 he becomes Secretary General of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture in New York and in 2006 Managing Director. In 2003 he is General Counsel of ACP, an American private real estate investment fund headquartered in New York (group which is valued above 1 billion dollars). In 2007 the turning point: urgently hospitalized for a serious health issue, he realizes that "if there is a dream in life, one does not have to wait for the right moment, occasion or for the proper opportunity to fulfill it. Because that moment may never come". He immediately moves and enters Juilliard School of Music of New York and, after 4 years, he opts for part-time in the real estate fund, so that to have more time to devote to orchestral conducting. In 2009 he studies privately with Maestro Piero Bellugi and