Joana Carneiro

Joana Carneiro was the Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen from 2006 to 2008. She was promoted to the position after having served three seasons as the orchestra's League of American Orchestras (fka American Symphony Orchestra League) Conducting Fellow.

She first gained attention as a finalist in the 2002 Maazel-Vilar Conductor's Competition at Carnegie Hall. She was Music Director of the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra from 2002 to 2005, having won the Young Musician’s Foundation’s 2002 National Conductor Search, whose past winners include among others André Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Lucas Richman. In 2005/06, she took up a position as Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon, and in 2006/07 she was named official guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.

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* [http://www.laphil.com/resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=1337 Musician Details] at the [http://www.laphil.com/orchestra/laphilharmonic.cfm Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra]
* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=269&c=2 IMG Artists webpage]