Dr. Anna Binneweg has distinguished
herself in the areas of symphonic and operatic conducting early in
her career. She is the Music Director/Conductor of the Anne
Arundel Community College Symphony Orchestra (Arnold, MD) where she
also serves as Assistant Professor of Music, and is the newly appointed
Music Director/Conductor of the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra (Edgewater,MD). In Chicago, she is the Music Director/Conductor of OperaModa,
a company committed to producing and performing modern American opera
featuring local young artists. She holds a doctor of music degree
in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University where she studied
with Victor Yampolsky, and has served on the conducting faculties
at Loyola University (Chicago, IL) the Sherwood Conservatory of Music
(Chicago, IL), and American University (Washington, DC).
Dr.
Binneweg made her conducting debut at the Kennedy Center with the
National Symphony Orchestra in the 2005 National Conducting Institute,
and presently serves as one of their cover conductors. She has worked
with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Robert
Spano, James Paul, Michael Morgan, Duaine Wolfe, Nurhan Arman and
David Effron through various engagements sponsored by the League of
American Orchestras, the Conductors Guild, the Conductors Institute
of New York and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
She is a graduate of the Meadows School of the Arts of Southern
Methodist University (Dallas, TX) where she completed a double master’s
degree in conducting and music education while serving as the assistant
conductor of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to the development
of music education, her youth orchestra experience includes various
guest conducting and clinician appearances with orchestras throughout
the United States and Canada, along with former positions with the
Houston Youth Symphony (Houston, TX) and the San Luis Obispo Youth
Symphony (San Luis Obispo, CA) where she fulfilled her undergraduate
degree in music at Cal Poly State University. Binneweg is a
native of Lake Tahoe, California.
