Johanna Malangré
About
Praised as ‘a natural conductor’ by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, award-winning German conductor Johanna Malangré is Chief Conductor of the Orchestre de Picardie in France since September 2022 and has been noted for her electrifying musicality and magnetic presence on the podium.
As a guest conductor, Malangré has recently led the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre National de France, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Helsingborg
Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. In summer 2025 she stepped in at short notice to conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. She regularly joins forces with international soloists such as Alban Gerhardt, Anastasia Kobekina, Alexander Melnikov, Carolin Widmann and Sergej Nakariakov. With cellist Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre de Bretagne she recorded his CD ‘Sensations’ for ERATO/Warner Classics.
Alongside her season as Music Director in Amiens including several concert series, 2025/26 sees Malangré making her first appearance with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and giving her South America debut with the Orquesta Nacional de México. Reinvitations will lead her back to Lucerne Festival to conduct Patricia Kopatchinskajas´ double concerto for violin and cello with the Contemporary Orchestra. She will also be returning to Spain to conduct the Real Fílharmonia de Galicia aswell as subsciption concerts with Orquesta Nacional de Sevilla and the Orquesta regional de Murcia.
She began her career at the Chamber Opera Cologne, where she worked as an assistant conductor and répétiteur in numerous productions and is constantly expanding her opera repertoire, having led productions of "Rusalka", "La nozze del Figaro", "An Index of Metals" and "Die Fledermaus" in the past. At the Opéra de Nice, she conducted "12 vies de Schönberg" in a production by Bertrand Bonello.
At the 2019 MAWOMA Conducting Competition in Vienna, Malangré was awarded the 1st prize and orchestra prize by a jury chaired by Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Dominque Meyer. In 2016/207 she won the Assistant Conductor position with the Bergische Symphoniker and was reinvited several times afterwards to conduct the orchestra.
Her passion to communicate the world of orchestral music to a wider public and a special interest in curating programmes aimed at introducing new audiences to classical music led her to found the HIDALGO Festival Orchestra in 2019 which unites young players from all orchestras of the city of Munich.
A graduate of the renowned conducting class of Prof. Johannes Schläfli in Zurich, Johanna has been coached by mentors including Bernard Haitink, Paavo Järvi, Nicolas Pasquet and Reinhard Goebel.
