Micah Gleason, an “easygoing yet fiercely skilled conductor and singer” (NYT), completed a Conducting Fellowship at the Curtis Institute of Music as mentee of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was chosen by the Dallas Opera for its renowned Hart Institute for Women Conductors and is a recipient of the 2024 Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Award and winner of the 2025 American Prize in Conducting.

Interdisciplinary collaboration and community building are at the core of Micah’s music-making. She is curious about the most effective ways to disrupt the stasis and comfort of the modern concert hall; and how artists across disciplines, activists, and researchers can most effectively collaborate. 

An active symphonic and opera conductor, Micah has collaborated with notable ensembles including the Iceland Symphony, Symphony of the Americas, San Diego Symphony, Van Cliburn Competition and Fort Worth Symphony, The Spoleto Festival Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra; served as Music Director for chamber operas with the Musicians of Ma’alwyck and at The Cell Theater, served as assistant/cover conductor for opera productions with Washington National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, The Glimmerglass Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, Juilliard Vocal Arts, Curtis Opera Theater, and Bard College.

In the coming season she looks forward to conducting premieres with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Washington National Opera, Opera Memphis, City of London Sinfonia, Mannes Opera Theater, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble, as well as covering programs at the National Symphony Orchestra.

An avid performer and lover of chamber music, Micah has appeared as a conductor and/or singer with Chamber Music Northwest, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Friends of Music Concerts Inc, 92nd Street Y, Phoenix Chamber Music Society, and the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago.

A multidisciplinary artist herself, Micah enjoys working with collaborators across a range of artistic specializations. Alongside mezzo-soprano Joanne Evans, Micah is a co-founder of LOAM, an artistic partnership presenting semi-immersive theatrical and musical works. Current projects include co-conceiving, producing, and performing as a featured singer in The Fragile Femme, in collaboration with director George Miller and choreographer Matilda Sakamoto; as well producing and conducting a newly commissioned chamber opera, Daughter of God, which was recently presented in open workshop at the Curtis Institute of Music.

As a vocalist in concert, Micah has performed as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem, Bach Magnificat in D, Rachmaninoff Vespers, and Handel’s Messiah, to name a few. Micah has also performed multiple operatic roles and extensive art song and chamber music repertoire. An enthusiastic proponent of song new and old, Micah has trained and performed at the Vancouver International Song Institute, SongFest, and Source Song Festival, where she collaborated with several notable living composers. Micah has appeared with professional ensembles including the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, Philadelphia Orchestra Symphonic Chorus, and the American Symphony Orchestra Festival Chorale. Micah also served as the Alto Artist in Residence at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at The University of Chicago for two years, where she was a regularly-featured soloist.

Micah is represented by Intermusica for worldwide management.

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