conductor
Anna Rakitina
Anna Rakitina has served as assistant conductor to Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2019. She was additionally named a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2019–20 season. The Russian conductor started out as a violinist and soprano before studying conducting at the Moscow conservatory. While continuing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, she conducted such operas as Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin and Iolanta and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. As a recipient of the Lucerne Festival Academy Conducting Fellowship, Rakitina participated in masterclasses presided over by Alan Gilbert and Bernard Haitink. Her Tanglewood Festival debut garnered great acclaim. She has performed with the symphony orchestras of Malmö, Gothenburg, Boston, Vancouver and Chicago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre de Paris.
Anna Rakitina has served as assistant conductor to Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2019. She was additionally named a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2019–20 season. The Russian conductor started out as a violinist and soprano before studying conducting at the Moscow conservatory. While continuing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, she conducted such operas as Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin and Iolanta and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. As a recipient of the Lucerne Festival Academy Conducting Fellowship, Rakitina participated in masterclasses presided over by Alan Gilbert and Bernard Haitink. Her Tanglewood Festival debut garnered great acclaim. She has performed with the symphony orchestras of Malmö, Gothenburg, Boston, Vancouver and Chicago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre de Paris.
Anna Rakitina has served as assistant conductor to Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2019. She was additionally named a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2019–20 season. The Russian conductor started out as a violinist and soprano before studying conducting at the Moscow conservatory. While continuing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, she conducted such operas as Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin and Iolanta and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. As a recipient of the Lucerne Festival Academy Conducting Fellowship, Rakitina participated in masterclasses presided over by Alan Gilbert and Bernard Haitink. Her Tanglewood Festival debut garnered great acclaim. She has performed with the symphony orchestras of Malmö, Gothenburg, Boston, Vancouver and Chicago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre de Paris.