Joana Mallwitz
Metropolitan Opera - Le nozze di Figaro
A brilliant Met debut. With a brilliant orchestra, Mallwitz conducted a fresh, vibrant revival of Mozart's Figaro.
Bachtrack (April 01, 2025)Opus Classic 2025
Joana Mallwitz, conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, is honored as Conductor of the Year at Opus Klassik.
Die Zeit (June 25, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Ravel – Bolero
Dessner – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Meredith – Nautilus
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
Sep 5/6
ZURICH OPERA HOUSE
Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier
PREMIERE Sep 21 (Lydia Steier, director)
Sep 26, Oct 1/5/14/17/21/28
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Gershwin - An American in Paris
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Oct 31, Nov 1/2
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KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1
Brahms – Symphony No. 1
Nov 27/28/29
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Mozart – Serenata Notturna in D Major
Mazzoli – Dark with Excessive Bright for Double Bass and String Orchestra
Wagner – Prelude to Act I of
Lohengrin
Haydn – Symphony No. 102
Dec 6/7
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Shaw – Entr'acte
Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances
Dec 11/12
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Wagner – Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Dessner – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Mendelssohn – The Hebrides Overture
Smetana – Ma Vlast
Dec 31, Jan 1
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Schubert – Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
Bartók – Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Kurtág – Movement for Viola and Orchestra
Puccini – Suite from the Opera Turandot
Feb 20/21
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Haydn – The Creation
Feb 27/28, Mar 1
OSTERFESTSPIELE BADEN BADEN
MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Lohengrin
PREMIERE March 28
March 31, Apr 3/5
Britten – War Requiem
Apr 3
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hindemith – Mathis der Maler Symphony
Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 2
Weill – Symphony No. 2
Apr 16/17
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé, Symphonic Fragments for Orchestra and Choir
Apr 23/24/25
ORCHESTRA DELL'ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
Kodály – Dances of Galánta
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
Apr 30, May 2/3
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3
Mahler – Symphony No. 5
May 21/22/23
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN (Germany Tour)
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3
Mahler – Symphony No. 5
May 25 (Bielefeld) / 26 (Essen) / 27 (Hamburg) / 29 (Linz) / 30 (Nuremberg) / 31 (Cologne)
STAATSPHILHARMONIE NÜRNBERG
Mahler – Symphony No. 9
June 19
Biography
Joana Mallwitz has served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the beginning of the 2023/24 season. On the international stage, she has been recognized as one of the leading conductors of her generation—particularly since her acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2020 with Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
In the opera pit, Mallwitz has celebrated major successes at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Frankfurt Opera, and the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.
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She also appears regularly with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 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, Mallwitz will open the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden together with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and a new production of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin—marking the beginning of a long-term collaboration with both the festival and the orchestra. She will also return to the Zurich Opera House with Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, opening the first season under the opera house’s new artistic leadership.
A Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist, Mallwitz received the OPUS Klassik Award as Conductor of the Year for her CD The Kurt Weill Album, recorded with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Together with incoming Intendant Tobias Rempe, she will continue her successful collaboration at the Konzerthaus Berlin. In addition to subscription concerts, a recording of Haydn’s The Creation and a European tour—with stops in Hamburg, Linz, and Cologne, among others—are planned.
Mallwitz became the youngest General Music Director in Europe when she took up the position at the Theater Erfurt in the 2014/15 season. After four successful years, she moved to the Staatstheater Nuremberg in 2018 in the same role. Her productions and formats there attracted wide national attention, and after her first season in 2019, she was named Conductor of the Year by the critics' survey of Opernwelt. Initiatives such as her “Expedition Concerts”, the Orchestra Academy founded in Erfurt, and the “Junge Staatsphilharmonie” launched in Nuremberg remain outstanding successes. In April 2024, the Staatsphilharmonie Nuremberg named her Honorary Conductor—a title bestowed for the first time in the orchestra’s over 100-year history.
Born in Hildesheim, Mallwitz studied at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover. She is a recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit. In 2023, the Federal President of Germany awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit at Schloss Bellevue in recognition of her longstanding work in classical music education and youth development.
The documentary film “Joana Mallwitz – Momentum”, directed by Günter Atteln and released in spring 2024, garnered strong interest from both audiences and media.
Joana Mallwitz lives in Berlin with her family.
2025/26
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