Under her guidance, two of her students have already won the Diversity Conducting Fellowship of the Buffalo Philharmonic, NY, and the position Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, WI.Ī protégée of Pierre Boulez, Brunet was one of the 14 finalists selected over 200 applicants for the second edition of the International Competition La Maestra in 2022 in Paris. In May 2021, she was named the first woman Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Iowa-School of Music where she is conducting the orchestras in symphonic concerts, operas, and musical theater, as well as teaching orchestral conducting to Master and Doctorate students. In July 2022, she became the fifth Music Director of the Lexington Philharmonic, KY, and the first woman to hold the position, she is also in her third season as the Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, PA. French conductor Mélisse Brunet, currently living in Iowa City, IA, is quickly gaining attention on both sides of that Atlantic as a “ skilled and polished conductor with panache” ().
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