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As of 2017 he is President and Music Director of Central Park Summer Concerts, an organization that produces an annual event called "Opera Italiana is in the Air" at Central Park, New York and other cities in the US, to promote Italian opera especially among the young generation.

On July 6, 2017 Alvise Casellati conducted an orchestra composed of 56 musicians and a cast of four soloists in a selection of arias and symphonic pieces by Rossini, Verdi and Puccini. On July 2, 2018 he conducted an orchestra of 60 musicians and a cast of five soloists in a selection of arias and symphonic pieces of Rossini, Verdi and Puccini.

As of 2017 he collaborates with the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari on an Educational Project, whereby he conducts programs specifically designed to bring to the theater students of all ages (primary, secondary and superior schools). In 2017 he conducts "Aladino e La Sua Lampada" by Nicola Scardicchio and Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Jr. and in 2018 Il Gatto con Gli Stivali of Nicola Scardicchio at the presence of more than 20.000 students and a "family concert".

As Resident Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, in 2014 he debuts in opera, conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia of Rossini and further L'Elisir d'Amore of Donizetti.

He was Director of the Ensemble Opera Studio (EOS) at Teatro Carlo Felice, a project where 30 young singers were selected – among above 600 candidates from around the world – to work as staff singers at the theater.

In March 2011 he conducts his first Italian concert, at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, on occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Unity of Italy. In 2012 he decides to leave the legal career and devote to conducting full-time.

In 2009 he studies privately with Maestro Piero Bellugi and becomes his Assistant for a Conducting Masterclass in New York in June 2010.

Between 2009 and 2012 it is of great significance the mentorship of M° Piero Bellugi, of whom he is also assistant in New York. Assistant to M° Gustav Kuhn for the season 2012–2013 at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl (Austria), after his debut in Italy at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, where he conducts the Orchestra and Choir in the Concert for the 150th Anniversary of the Unity of Italy. He is guest to important music festivals: Ravello Festival, where he conducts for 3 years the famous Dawn Concert, Venice Festival, The Two Worlds Spoleto Festival, Valle d'Itria Festival, La Versiliana, Emilia Romagna Festival, Ljubljana Festival, Mittelfest and Baltic Musical Seasons.

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".

Drawn to conducting at the Musikhochschule in Vienna with Leopold Hager, from 2007 to 2011 he participates in the "Orchestral Conducting" class at the Juillard School of Music in New York with Maestro Vincent La Selva.

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 2002 he passes the Bar in Italy and in New York and in 2003 is formally admitted in both countries.

In 2000 he decides to move to New York to specialize in the subject of his law degree thesis 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.

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.

Alvise Casellati (Italian: [alˈviːze kazelˈlaːti] ; born in Padua on March 20, 1973) is an Italian conductor.