About this Artist
Joana Mallwitz has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the start of the 2023/24 season, becoming the first woman to lead one of Berlin’s major orchestras. Since her acclaimed debut at the 2020 Salzburg Festival with Mozart’s Così fan tutte, she has been one of the outstanding female conductors of her generation on the international stage.
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 Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Mallwitz is an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon and dedicated her first joint CD project with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin to the works of Kurt Weill.
In the 2024/25 season, she performs with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin at Musikfest Berlin and makes guest appearances in Dortmund and on a European tour in Essen, Antwerp, and Zurich. She also debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.