Johanna Malangré © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival
Johanna Malangré © Priska Ketterer / Lucerne Festival

German conductor Johanna Malangré was a Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2017, where she worked with artists such as Heinz Holliger and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. She has also completed master classes with Bernard Haitink, Paavo Järvi, Reinhard Goebel, and Nicolas Pasquet, leads the Hidalgo Festival Orchestra in Munich, and will take up her post as Principal Conductor of the Orchestre National de Picardie in 2022. In 2021, she returned to Lucerne as Assistant Conductor for the Roche Young Commissions. We talked to Johanna about conducting, "going crazy," and her approach to new music.