Joana Mallwitz

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

Joana Mallwitz has also enjoyed great success at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Oper Frankfurt, and the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen.

She is a regular guest conductor with major orchestras worldwide. These include the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2025/26 season, Joana Mallwitz opens the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and a new production of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. This marks the beginning of a multi-year collaboration with the festival and the orchestra. She will also return to the Zurich Opera House with Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, opening the first season of the new director.

Joana Mallwitz is an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon. She was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK for Conductor of the Year for her CD The Kurt Weill Album with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Together with the new director Tobias Rempe, the successful collaboration at the Konzerthaus Berlin will continue in this season. A recording of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation and a tour including Hamburg, Linz, and Cologne are also planned in addition to the subscription concerts.