Biography
Michal Oren is an award winning conductor and a clarinettist from Tel-Aviv, Israel. Recently she was awarded the Female Conductor Trainee position at Opera North in Leeds, UK (2024-2025).
In September 2024, she started studying for her Professional Diploma in conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London with a full scholarship under the conductor Sian Edwards, holding the Bianca Falcone Sorrell Award. She graduated from her master’s studies in orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music in London as a Victor and Lilian Hochhauser Scholar with a full scholarship. Previously, she was awarded distinction for her two Bachelors of Music in orchestral conducting and clarinet performance from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at the Tel Aviv University. Among Michal's teachers are the conductors Toby Purser, Peter Stark, Howard Williams, Yi-An Xu, Doron Salomon, Dr Dale Lonis, and the IPO principal clarinettist Yevgeny Yehudin.
Michal won the1st prize in the 4th International Academy and Competition of Orchestra Conducting in Estoril, Portugal (2023) and the 2nd prize of the 3rd International Orchestral Conducting Competition “Universidad de Almeria”, Spain (2023). In 2024, she joined the Women Conductors’ Programme of the Royal Philharmonic Society with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, led by Alice Farnham. Michal is the Residence Music Scholar of the Robert Anderson Trust (2022-2025), and since 2015, scholar of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (with the highest distinction for 2024-2026). In June 2024, she was invited by maestro Martyn Brabbins to share a concert with him and the London-based Salomon Orchestra, and participated in his masterclass with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow.
As part of her modern approach, Michal initiated a museum chamber orchestra together with the Petah Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. The orchestra performs a repertoire that offers a musical interpretation (musical curation) of visual arts exhibits. Since its establishment, the orchestra performed a series of concerts that correspond to various exhibitions across Israel, supported by numerous private and public donors.
