Tamara Dworetz, Guest Conductor

American conductor Tamara Dworetz is driven by her belief in the power of classical music to inspire, spread joy and enrich the human experience. Dworetz's 2025-26 season includes debuts with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SONA) and Wintergreen Music Festival. Tamara is in her 3rd season as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Georgia Philharmonic.

Dworetz has conducted the Cincinnati Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Boston Pops, Sarasota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Paris Mozart Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and Mankato
Symphony. Recently, Tamara conducted her first staged opera, Bizet's
Carmen. She has served as an assistant and/or cover conductor for the
Orchestre de Paris (Klaus Mäkelä), Gürzenich Orchestre Cologne
(François-Xavier Roth), BBC Concert Orchestra (Bramwell Tovey) and
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Nathalie Stutzmann) and Minnesota
Orchestra (Johnathon Heyward & Marta Gardolińska). She won 2nd prize
in the Boston Pops' Leonard Bernstein Conducting Competition and was a
recipient of the Bruno Walter Conducting Fellowship at the Cabrillo
Festival of Contemporary Music selected by Cristian Măcelaru.

Tamara is featured in a Netflix documentary called 'Maestra', directed
by Maggie Contreras and produced by David Letterman. The film centers
around 5 conducting participants in the 2022 La Maestra Conducting
Competition and Academy for Women Conductors in Paris, France and has
been highlighted by the NY Times, LA Times, CBS National News as well
as international film festivals, including Tribeca, where it was
premiered. In the 2022 competition, Tamara was the only US-born
conductor and earned a spot as one of 6 semi-finalists.

A devoted music educator, Tamara’s musical beginnings took place in
the Atlanta public school system and she is passionate about fostering
enriching musical experiences for K-12 and pre-professional musicians.
She serves as Associate Conductor of Carnegie Hall's National Youth
Orchestras, NYO-USA & NYO2 and has traveled on their South American
Tour, assisting Marin Alsop and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.  Tamara is
Director of Orchestral Studies at Georgia State University and Charles
Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professor in Instrumental Music. She has
served guest conducting residencies at University of Texas Butler
School of Music, Boston University School of Music, SUNY Fredonia
School of Music, and the Longy Conservatory Orchestra at Bard College.
She has guest conducted All-State Orchestras in Texas, Virginia,
Indiana, Colorado, Georgia and Washington (All-Northwest) as well as
the Atlanta Music Project and worked with the Atlanta, Austin, Emory
and Boston Youth Orchestras. She maintains a graduate conducting
studio at Georgia State University and has led conducting workshops
for music educators and young musicians.

Tamara and her husband, Stephen, live in Chamblee, Georgia with their
daughter and pup.