“She is an inquisitive artist who knows how to motivate an orchestra while simultaneously demanding the highest quality. She can immerse herself in the intricacies of sound color but also knows when to let go.” This was the opinion of the jury from the magazine “Opernwelt” in the autumn of 2019 when they named then 33-year-old conductor Joana Mallwitz “Conductor of the Year”. Mallwitz, who has been the General Music Director of the Nuremberg State Theater since 2018, is celebrated by critics as an “exceptionally talented conductor”, able from her position in the orchestra pit to shape and animate the musical action like a “stage designer in sound” (Reinhard J. Brembeck, Süddeutsche Zeitung).
At least since her frenetically acclaimed debut with “Così fan tutte“ in Salzburg in 2020, Joana Mallwitz is rated among the most outstanding conductors of her generation. In the 100-year-old history of the Salzburg Festival, she was the first female conductor to be entrusted with an entire production. In the 2022/23 season she will return to Salzburg to oversee a revival of “The Magic Flute”. With the season 2023/24, Joana Mallwitz will become artistic director and chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
In the current season she will be conducting the RSO Vienna within her engagement as portrait artist of the Wiener Musikverein. Additional debuts are planned with the BRSO Munich, Orchestre National de France and at the Semperoper Dresden, where she will lead a new production of Rusalka. Former engagements include working at the Bavarian State Opera (Eugene Onegin and L’elisir d’amore), at the Frankfurt Opera (Salome and The Merry Widow), the Royal Danish Opera (The Flying Dutchman and Madame Butterfly), as well as the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo (Der Rosenkavalier) and the Opera Zurich (Macbeth). Concert engagements led her to the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the HR- and SWR- Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Göteborg Symphony Orchestra.
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