Mélisse Brunet is a French symphonic, opera, and musical theatre conductor living in the USA.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Fifth Music Director of the Lexington Philharmonic, KY
  • One of the fourteen conductors selected for the second Conducting Competition La Maestra, March 2022, Paris
  • Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
  • Finalist for the position of Music Director with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, CT
  • Finalist for the position of Music Director with the Salina Symphony Orchestra, KS
  • One of the twelve conductors selected for the first Conducting Competition La Maestra, Paris
  • One of the six conductors selected for the 2018 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview
  • First woman Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Iowa
  • One of the six women conductors chosen for the international Hart Institute for Women Conductors at the Dallas Opera in 2017

HONORS & AWARDS

  • 2022 Selected for La Maestra, Second International Conducting Competition
  • 2020 Selected for La Maestra, First International Conducting Competition
  • 2019 Outstanding Teaching Excellence Award from Appalachian State University
  • 2018 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview
  • 2017 Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera
  • Selected conductor at the prestigious Cabrillo Festival for new music in California in 2014

PERFORMANCES

  • Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City
  • Lexington Philharmonic, KY
  • Salina Symphony, KS
  • Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, CT
  • University of Iowa, IA
  • Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
  • Cleveland Institute of Music
  • West Virginia Symphony
  • CityMusic Cleveland
  • Power Center in Ann Arbor, MI
  • University of Iowa, School of Music