After an intensive year-long process, the Georgia Philharmonic Board of Directors has approved the Search Committee’s recommendation to hire Maestra Tamara Dworetz as Georgia Philharmonic’s Music Director, effective July 1, 2023.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Tamara Dworetz is quickly establishing a reputation as a dynamic and electrical musical force on the podium. She has conducted the Orchestre de Paris, the Paris Mozart Orchestra, Boston Pops, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony, and Mankato Symphony. She has served as an assistant conductor for the Orchestra de Paris (Klaus Mäkelä), Gürzenich Orchestre Cologne (François-Xavior Roth), BBC Concert Orchestra (Bramwell Tovey), and Atlanta Symphony (Nathalie Stutzmann) and won 2nd prize in the Boston Pops’ Leonard Bernstein Conducting Competition.
Tamara was recently selected as one of 14 candidates from a worldwide pool in the 2022 La Maestra Conducting Competition for Women Conductors in Paris, France. She was the only U.S.-born conductor selected for the competition and earned a spot as one of six semi-finalists. A documentary entitled “Maestra”, directed by Maggie Contreras, features five conductors from the competition—including Tamara—and was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, 2023, and highlighted on CBS National News.
A devoted music educator, Tamara’s musical beginnings took place in the Atlanta public school system. Tamara is passionate about leading K-12 and pre-professional musicians in enriching musical experiences and is proud to be the newly-appointed Director of Orchestral Studies at Georgia State University.
“I am very excited to begin working with Georgia Philharmonic,” Dworetz shared. “I am impressed with the community support for the orchestra and the talented musicians who care deeply about its future. I feel we’ll achieve great things together.”
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