Stephanie Childress

Conductor Stephanie Childress is making her mark as a musician of remarkable skill who has been likened to “other notable young conductors of the past such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Simon Rattle” (Varsity). Her musicianship has led to engagements with major symphony orchestras and opera houses across the international stage.

Last season, she concluded her role as Assistant Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Musical America named her “Artist of the Month” this past October, and she was also recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. She began the 2023/24 season making her Hamburg Staatsoper debut in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and returning to Glyndebourne’s autumn season for Don Giovanni. In the 2023/24 season she will also make her conducting debut with Detroit Opera in Missy Mazzoli‘s Breaking the Waves.

Ms. Childress won 2nd prize in the 2020 La Maestra Competition for international women conductors and studied music at St. John’s College in Cambridge. As a young violinist, she was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition in 2016 and 2018 and made her BBC Proms debut in 2019.