Praised as ‘a natural conductor’ by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, award-winning German conductor Johanna Malangré has been the new Chief Conductor of the Orchestre de Picardie in France since September 2022 and has been noted for her electrifying musicality and imaginative leadership.

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Alongside her season as Music Director in Amiens including several concert series, a recording and a tour in France and Germany, 24/25 sees Malangré making her first appearances at Orchestre National de Lyon, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orquestra Sinfónica de Tenerife, Jonköping Sinfonietta and Wermland Opera Orchestra. She will also return to Lucerne Festival leading the LFCO in a world premiere by composer Lisa Streich and will be conducting "12 vies de Schönberg" at Opéra de Nice in a staging by Bertrand Bonello. Furthermore, Malangré makes her Japan debut with Orchestra Nagoya Philharmonic and Gunma Orchestra in June 2024.

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Following recent invitations she has collaborated as guest conductor with the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, Wuppertaler Sinfonieorchester, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Musikcollegium Winterthur, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Collegium Novum Zürich, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Helsinborgs Symfoniorkester, Norrköpping Symfoniorkester, Orchestre National de France, Orchestres de Pau, Besançon and Orchestre de Bretagne, with which she recorded ‘Sensations’, a ERATO/Warner Classics CD with soloist Gauthier Capuçon. Malangré also regularly joins forces with international soloists such as Alban Gerhardt, Alexandre Tharaud, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary or Carolin Widmann.

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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 was Assistant Conductor position with the Bergische Symphoniker and was reinvited several times afterwards to conduct the orchestra. She began her career at the Chamber Opera Cologne as Assistant Conductor collaborating on numerous productions. Malangré continues to expand her operatic repertoire, in the past she has conducted productions of `Rusalka´, `La nozze del Figaro´, `An index of metals´ and `Die Fledermaus´.​

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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. 

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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.