ALUN FRANCIS is Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano and is one of the leading conductors in Europe today. In the past thirty years he has conducted more than one hundred different orchestras and opera companies in more than twenty five countries and appears regularly in the major musical capitals of the world: Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, London and Milan. He has also recorded more than eighty CDs.
In the last years Alun Francis has conducted concerts and compact disc recordings with the Italian Radio Orchestra (RAI) Turin, the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester of Berlin, the Frankfurter-Radio-Sinfonie Orchester, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Hannover, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Radio Sinfonie Orchester Basel, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish National Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London.

In January 2000 Alun Francis won the FIRST PRIZE of the CANNES´ CLASSICAL AWARDS presented at MIDEM 2000 in the category of CD Premiers for his recordings of the Complete Symphonies of Darius Milhaud. Highly regarded as a conductor of Bel Canto opera, Alun Francis was invited to direct the WORLD PREMIERE of DONIZETTI´S "Gabriella di Vergy" in London in 1978. At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Alun Francis directed "Rigoletto" in a Roman Polanski production. His Opera repertoire includes over 70 different operas. Apart from his classical repertoire, Alun Francis is a noted specialist in 20th century music, with a repertoire which ranges from Berio and Stockhausen to a sizeable number of world premiers. As a COMPOSER, Alun Francis has written works for the concert hall, theatre and films, which are published in London and New York.