Avlana Eisenberg comes to Boston after serving as Music Director of the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society, where she conducted full productions of The Mikado, Gondoliers, and Patience. Avlana has also conducted performances of Britten’s The Turn of The Screw (Peabody Opera Department), Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Moores Opera Center), and Herbert’s Orange Blossoms (Comic Opera Guild). As Music Director of Blue Line Arts, she conducted The Scarlet Letter, a world premiere musical, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Avlana is also active as a guest conductor, most recently performing with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra and recording a debut CD with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted the San Diego Ballet Orchestra and musicians of the Columbus Symphony and has also performed with such orchestras as the Stanford Symphony, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, and the New Symphony Orchestra of Sofia, Bulgaria. Avlana has served as Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Opera, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, and the U-M Life Sciences Orchestra, and as cover conductor for the Baltimore Symphony and the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra.

A Fulbright Fellow and winner of Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women, Avlana began conducting while an undergraduate at Yale University, where she founded and directed the Silliman Symphony, a 60-member chamber orchestra, and was awarded Yale's V. Browne Irish Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts.  Avlana holds a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan, a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She currently serves on the teaching faculty of Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law.