Concert engagements have taken her to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, HR and SWR Symphony Orchestras, Dresden Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and as a portrait artist to the Vienna Musikverein.  In early summer 2024, ‘Momentum’, a documentary film by Günter Atteln about her journey to the Konzerthaus Berlin, was released in cinemas.

After her longstanding engagement as Kapellmeister at the Theater Heidelberg, Mallwitz took up her first conducting post at the Theater Erfurt in the 2014/2015 season as Europe’s youngest General Music Director. There she established the Orchestra Academy of the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra and founded the composer-in-residence programme known as “Erfurt’s New Notes”. Her “Expedition Concerts”, conceived during this time, also became a resounding success at the Staatstheater Nuremberg and as an online format.

Born in Hildesheim, Joana Mallwitz studied conducting with Martin Brauß and Eiji Oue and piano with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Bernd Goetzke at the Hanover University of Music and Drama.

Joana Mallwitz has been awarded the Bavarian Constitutional Order and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She lives in Berlin with her husband and son.

In her debut season 2023/24, Joana Mallwitz recorded works by Kurt Weill with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. They will be released by Deutsche Grammophon, where the chief conductor is an exclusive artist. In early summer 2024, ‘Momentum’, a documentary film by Günter Atteln about her way to the Konzerthaus Berlin, was released in cinemas.