Aurélien Bello was born in France in 1980 and first studied music theory, harp and orchestration at the CNSMD of Lyon. This was followed by a conducting degree at the Hanns Eisler University of Music with Prof. Hans-Dieter Baum. He was funded by the Conductors’ Forum of the German Music Council and was a scholarship holder of the Academy “Musiktheater heute” of the Deutsche Bank Foundation. As a harpist, Aurélien Bello played with renowned orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, under conductors such as Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Tugan Sokhiev and Gustavo Dudamel. Through the mediation of Claudio Abbado, who met him as a harpist at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Aurélien Bello was able to debut as a conductor in 2005 in Venezuela with various orchestras of the Sistema network. 

Since then he has conducted many well-known ensembles, including the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Konzerhausorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester. With members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he conducted his own orchestration of Der kleine Rosenkavalier in 2015. 

Aurélien Bello directed the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Berlin, the ensemble of the Junges Freundeskreis of the Berliner Philharmoniker, from 2015 to 2022-2022. He was musical director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music Gymnasium in Berlin. A long-standing musical friendship connects him with the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach, the Südwestdeutscher Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. Opera productions took Aurélien Bello to the Komische Oper Berlin, to the festival in Baden-Baden, to Bielefeld, Gelsenkirchen, Schwerin and Rheinsberg. As Kapellmeister at the Theater Kiel, he was able to expand his opera repertoire in 2009-2010 by basic plays. 

Since 2013, Aurélien Bello has also increasingly devoted himself to composition and orchestration. He fulfills many commissions for the Berliner Philharmoniker: In 2019 he composed the children’s opera Der kleine and Otello based on motifs by Verdi and a libretto by Tina Hartmann. He also edited Der kleine Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss (2015), La Boîte à Joujoux by Debussy (2016), as well as a Hommage to Sir Simon Rattle for his farewell from Berlin (2018). For the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, he reduced Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen to 50 musicians and 100 minutes in 2014. The orchestral composition A brief history of the time after Stephen Hawking was premiered in January 2018 at the Philharmonie Berlin. In 2017 and 2018 he composed two operas for the Musikakademie Rheinsberg on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aurélien Bello composed many new works, which were premiered and recorded through a crowdfunding campaign and with the help of the Neustart-Kultur funding program: a Piano sonata (2021), the Images lunaires for harp and string quartet (2022) and the Symphonie des crises (2023). He also works as a media composer, especially with the full-dome artist Sergey Prokofjev. The joint film Eternal habitat has won numerous awards at full-dome festivals worldwide.