After participating in the final rounds of the 58th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors in 2023, Lea Katharina Fischer was selected as an assistant conductor by the Orchestre Victor Hugo and its chief conductor, Jean-François Verdier, and regularly conducted children’s concerts and symphony concerts there.

In the current season, she makes her debut with the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra and assists Domingo Hindoyan at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights of the last season included conducting the finale of the 1st International Composition Competition for Young Audiences in Besançon and making her debut with the Orquestra do Algarve in Faro. Since completing her time as an assistant in Besançon, she returns regularly as a guest conductor and conducted the premiere of the children’s opera “Momo, l’enfant pêche” by Haru Shionoya.

Lea Katharina Fischer is currently completing her master’s degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, and Nicolas Pasquet, and regularly collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic there.

Previously, she studied with Prof. Rüdiger Bohn at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, and furthered her studies with Pierre-Michel Durand and Marc Korovitch at the Pôle Supérieur d’Education Artistique in Paris, as well as with Daniele Agiman at the Conservatorio di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.