It has been three years since our last power list of women conductors, and most of the names remain the same. Cuddly pictures of three women at Bayreuth confirm a perceptual shift but, with Chicago, LA and San Francisco still vacant, no woman has yet made it to the helm of a major US orchestra. Why is that?
The rankings are asessed on position, profile, guest engagements and frequent shortlistings.
(Last rankings in brackets.)
1 (21) Eun Sun Kim
San Francisco Opera
2 (3) Simone Young
Sydney Symphony
3 (1) Oksana Lyniv
Bologna and Bayreuth
4 (9) Joanna Mallwitz
Berlin Konzerthaus
5 (2) Nathalie Stutzmann
Atlanta Symphony
6 (-) Marie Jacquot
WDR Symphony Cologne and Wiener Symphoniker
7 (14) Speranza Scapucci
Covent Garden #2
8 (-) Barbara Hannigan
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
9 (6) Karina Canellakis
American in Holland
10 (18) Dalia Stasevska
MD at Lahti, #2 at BBC Symphony, fast rising
11 (-) Alondra de la Parra
Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid
12 (16) Gemma New
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
13 (-) Anna-Maria Helsing
BBC Concert Orchestra
14 (4) Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Freelance projects
15 (5) Marin Alsop
principal guest, Philadelphia Orchestra
16 (25) Jo-Ann Falletta
Buffalo Symphony
17 (7) Elim Chan
Antwerp Symphony
18 (11) Joana Carneiro
Real Filharmonia de Galicia
19 (10) Susanna Mälkki
freelance projects
20 (-) Lydia Yankovskaya
Chicago Opera Theater
21 (8) Marta Gardolinska
Opéra national de Lorraine
22 (26) Xian Zhang
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
23 (15) Han-na Chang
Trondheim Symphony
24 (19) Anna Skryleva
Magdeburg music director
25 (-) Alena Hron
South Czech Philharmonic
26 (20) Débora Waldman
First woman music director at a French symphony orchestra
27 (-) Daniela Candillari
Opera Theater of St Louis
28 (-) Keri-Lynn Wilson
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
29 (-) Melisse Brunet
Lexington Philharmonic
30 (-) Nil Vendetti
Royal Northern Sinfonia, pg
Who have we omitted?
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