Joana Mallwitz

Joana Mallwitz has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the start of the 2023/24 season, making her the first woman to lead one of Berlin's major orchestras. Since her acclaimed debut at the 2020 Salzburg Festival with Mozart's ‘Cosi fan tutte’, she has been one of the outstanding female conductors of her generation on the international stage.

Joana Mallwitz has also enjoyed great success with new productions at the Semperoper Dresden, the Nationale Opera Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen.

She is a regular guest with major orchestras worldwide. These include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouworkestre Amsterdam, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Her debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera New York are scheduled for the 2024/25 season.

Joana Mallwitz is an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon and dedicates her first joint CD project with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin to the works of Kurt Weill.

With the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, she can be heard in the 24/25season at the Musikfest Berlin, a guest performance in Dortmund and on a European tour in Essen, Antwerp and Zurich, among others, in addition to the subscription concerts.

2024/25
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