ANNA MALEK CONDUCTOR

ANNA MALEK is a young and extraordinarily versatile conductor with a broad repertoire. Until 2024 she worked as Second Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Augsburg and is currently assisting for Joana Mallwitz at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

In December 2021 she made a brilliant conducting debut with W. A. Mozart's Magic Flute at the Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden and is already emerging as one of the most exciting discoveries in the world of female conductors. In 2015 she made her first professional debut as a conductor at the Theater Lüneburg with the same piece and conducted several opera performances at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven in the following years.

She worked as répétiteur at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Nationaltheater Mannheim before she was hired as deputy chorus master at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2018. She has also received several invitations from the Bachchor Salzburg and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. In 2019, she led the choir rehearsals with the Rundfunkchor Berlin for Shostakovich`s 13. Symphony at the Berliner Philharmonie under the musical direction of Ingo Metzmacher and assisted in Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim. In 2022 she worked as chorus master for Schnittke`s 2. Symphony under the baton of Markus Poschner at the Brucknerfestspiele Linz. Other well-known conductors with whom Anna Malek was honoured to work are Christoph von Dohnányi, Zubin Mehta and Stefan Soltesz a.o.

Anna Malek received a scholarship from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and studied vocal pedagogy and choral conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. From 2020-2022 she furthered her studies at the renowned International Conducting Academy at the University of Arts Berlin in the Advanced Professional Training for Conductors program.

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