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.
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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.
Joana Mallwitz was the youngest female general music director in Europe when she joined the Erfurt Theatre in the 2014/15 season. After four successful years, she moved to the Nuremberg State Theatre in 2018 in the same role. There, she brought numerous productions, concerts and formats to great national attention and was honoured as ‘Conductor of the Year’ after their first season together in 2019. The ‘Expedition Concerts’ she initiated, as well as the Orchestra Academy founded in Erfurt and the Junge Staatsphilharmonie founded in Nuremberg, are still resounding success stories today. In April 2024, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic appointed Joana Mallwitz ‘Honorary Conductor’ - the first time this title has been awarded in the orchestra's 100-year history.
Born in Hildesheim, Joana Mallwitz studied at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She is a recipient of the Bavarian Constitutional Order and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal President in Bellevue Palace in 2023 for her many years of work in the promotion of classical music and young talent.
The documentary film ‘Joana Mallwitz - Momentum’ by Günter Atteln, which was released in spring, met with great interest from both the public and the media.
Joana Mallwitz lives with her family in Berlin.
