List of female classical conductors

The following is a partial and sortable list of female classical conductors.

Classical conductors work with orchestras, opera companies, ballet companies and choral groups.

[1][2] This list exists in the historical context of a lack of female classical conductors in the music profession.

[3][4][5] Peninsula Symphony Agnieszka Duczmal [43] [46] Holy Names-Mills College Orchestra, Oakland, California Prometheus Symphony Orchestra, Oakland, California[59] Krakow Opera Wroclaw Opera Norwalk Symphony Orchestra Allentown Symphony Orchestra As of her appointment at COT, Yankovskaya is the only female music director of a major American opera company.

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Ethel Stark giving instructions to violinists, 1942