Johanna Malangré appointed to Amiens
According to France Musique, Johanna Malangré, a student of Johannes Schlaefli in Zurich, will become Artistic Director of the Orchestre National de Picardie in 2022. She succeeds Arie Van Beek from the Netherlands in this position.
Malangré is the second musical director of a permanent orchestra in France after Debora Waldman, who has been conducting the Orchestre Régional Avignon-Provence since September 2020.
Johanna Malangré is a graduate of Johannes Schläfli's conducting class in Zurich. She has also completed masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, Paavo Jarvi, Reinhard Goebel and Nicolas Pasquet, among others. In 2017, she was a Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival Academy, where she worked with artists such as Heinz Holliger and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. She has been re-invited as Assistant Conductor for the Roche Young Commissions and the Academy Orchestra for 2020 and 2021.
