Biography: Joanna Mallwitz is a German conductor and pianist. She began to study violin at age 3, and piano at age 5. At age 14, she became a pupil of Christa-Maria Hartmann and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. She continued her music studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, where her teachers included Martin Brauss and Eiji Ōue, in conducting, and she continued piano studied with Kämmerling and with Bernd Goetzke. In 2004, she received a conducting stipend from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.