Molly Turner
Molly Turner
About this Artist
Described by The Washington Post as “a force of nature from the podium,” rising star American conductor Molly Turner is an exceptional young talent who directs with fervor and imagination. She served as Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony during the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, leading the orchestra in subscription, family, education, and holiday concerts, and was also a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2024/25 season.
In the 2025/26 season, Turner returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a performance in the Green Umbrella new music series and to Orchestre de Paris to conduct Young Person concerts. Following her successful 2025 debut with the Minnesota Orchestra as part of its education concert series, she rejoins the ensemble for multiple projects throughout 2025/26, leading performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and the Season Sampler concerts. Other notable engagements include a subscription debut with Kristiansand Symfoniorkester in Norway and conducting Byron Au Yong’s Stuck Elevator with Opera Grand Rapids.
Turner participated in the 2025 Verbier and Lucerne festivals as a conducting fellow and has previously served as cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic and assistant conductor for the Berliner Philharmoniker, San Francisco Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Polish National Radio Symphony. She received her artist diploma at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, studying under Esa-Pekka Salonen as a Salonen Fellow, and completed her Master’s degree in orchestral conducting at The Juilliard School, where she studied with David Robertson.