Joséphine Korda Conductor

Biography

Joséphine Korda is the main prize winner of the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Festival Conducting Academy 2025, and has received invitations to conduct four Swiss-German orchestras in the following season.

She made her debut at Opera Holland Park in June 2025, conducting Jonathan Dove’s Itch as their Young Artist Conductor. Previously Josephine was Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2024, trainee conductor at Opera North (2022-23) and assistant conductor at Opéra de Massy, Paris (2020-21). Also passionate about dance, Josephine has been re-invited to conduct The Nutcracker at Northern Ballet. She participated in the 57^th and 58^th editions of the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, reaching the semi-finals in 2023, and took part in several masterclasses, notably with Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia, David Reiland, George Benjamin, Jorma Panula, Sir Mark Elder and Antony Hermus.

Joséphine Korda studied composition and conducting at the École normale de musique de Paris, where she obtained an advanced diploma in conducting and composition with masters Dominique Rouits and Julien Masmondet, and composer Régis Campo. In 2022, she obtained an advanced certificate in contemporary repertoire from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, under the direction of Arturo Tamayo.

Joséphine Korda also holds an honours degree in music from Oxford University, where she was a choral and trumpet scholar. In 2024, she obtained a Master's degree in conducting from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in the classes of Mark Heron and Clark Rundell, where she was awarded the Mortimer Furber Prize in conducting.

Joséphine Korda joined the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris in September 2024.

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