Anna Handler, newly named assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Photo courtesy of Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In Tuesday’s (2/14) Berkshire Edge (Massachusetts), David Noel Edwards writes, “The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s … assistant conductor program provides up-and-coming conductors invaluable experience.” The BSO has appointed German-Columbian conductor and pianist Anna Handler as assistant conductor for a two-year term commencing in September 2024. “Handler is a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2023–2024 season. At the Juilliard School, Handler studied with David Robertson and was the first conductor to win Juilliard’s Kovner Fellowship, graduating in 2023…. Highlights of 2023–2024 include debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Grazer Philharmoniker, and Münchner Rundfunkorchester. During the 2022–2023 season, Handler debuted with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, OFUNAM Orchestra in Mexico, and Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin…. In 2022 at the Young Artist Festival Bayreuth, Handler and her team presented an interdisciplinary project on music education that featured real-time generative video animations…. Handler studied piano and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, the Accademia Pianistica di Imola, the Folkwang University of the Arts, [and elsewhere]…. She says performing chamber music with violinist Laura Handler and conducting from the piano are essential to her musical identity.”
