La Grande

Praised as "a conductor of great naturalness" by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, award-winning German conductor Johanna Malangré is the new chief conductor of the Orchestre de Picardie in France from September 2022. Johanna has been noted for her electrifying musicianship and imaginative leadership. She is passionate about communicating the world of orchestral music to a wider audience and has a special interest in commissioning programs aimed at introducing classical music to new audiences, a work she is developing very intensively in the north of France with her orchestra. She has recently been invited to conduct concerts with the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, Wuppertaler Sinfonieorchester, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Musikcollegium Winterthur, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Collegium Novum Zürich, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, İstanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Helsinborgs Symfoniorkester, Norrköpping Symfoniorkester, Orchestre National de France, Orchestras of Pau, Besançon and Orchestre de Bretagne, with whom he recorded 'Sensations', an ERATO/Warner Classics CD with soloist Gauthier Capuçon.