Micah Gleason, an “easygoing yet fiercely skilled conductor and singer” (NYT), graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music as mentee of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was chosen by the Dallas Opera for its renowned Hart Institute for Women Conductors, is a recipient of the 2024 Taki Alsop Conducting 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, community organizers, 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, Fort Worth Symphony, The Spoleto Festival Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra, the Dallas Opera, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra; served as 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 Opera Theater. In the 25/26 season, Micah looks forward to conducting debuts with Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Opera Memphis, City of London Sinfonia, Mannes Opera Theater, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble, as well as serving as cover conductor at the National Symphony Orchestra, and returning to The Spoleto Festival. Across this season's appearances, Micah is thrilled to be conducting world premieres of twelve different pieces.

An avid performer of chamber music as both conductor and a singer, Micah has appeared at the 92nd Street Y, with Chamber Music Northwest, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Friends of Music Concerts Inc., Phoenix Chamber Music Society, 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-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 workshopped at the Curtis Institute of Music. In May 2026, LOAM will present a newly conceived work for The Spoleto Festival’s Tell Your Story project.

Micah is represented worldwide by Intermusica Artist Management.

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