Stephanie Childress
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Stephanie Childress appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

4/12/2023

L’Auditori has appointed Stephanie Childress as the Principal Guest Conductor of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons.

Stephanie Childress made her debut at the helm of OBC in the 2021/22 season during the orchestra’s tour of Catalonia. She conducted the concerts held on 24 and 27 February 2022 at the Teatre Fortuny in Reus and the Auditori Enric Granados in Lleida, headed by a programme dedicated to Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, which also featured soloist Sergei Dogadin. After the success of her debut, that same year, she once again conducted the OBC in the Mozart Summer Nights Festival with cellist Kian Soltani as soloist.

“I am truly honoured to have been appointed as Principal Guest Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and to be strengthening my ties to an organisation that has been dear to me since our first meeting. As the orchestra takes dynamic steps forward, I am delighted to be making this next step in my career alongside such wonderful musicians and a dedicated team led by Maestro Morlot.”

Stephanie Childress

“Rarely does it happen that a young artist generates such a forceful and consistent impact on the sector, which is increasingly attentive to new voices and renewed leadership on the circuit. […] Her incorporation is a new opportunity to position our institution as an international benchmark, not only musically, but also as a reflection of the rich and complex social reality that surrounds us”

Robert Brufau, Director of L’Auditori

This season, we will have the opportunity to see the Franco-British conductor lead the OBC at L’Auditori, as she will be conducting the ensemble on 27 and 28 April in a concert dedicated to Chopin, which will also feature pianist Yulianna Avdeeva.