Hannah von Wiehler (née Schneider) is currently the music director of Orchestra VOX (UK) and the assistant conductor of Opéra National de Bordeaux, where she conducts the orchestra regularly.

She is known as a trailblazer and free-thinker, having launched her own orchestra and created critically acclaimed multi-genre, multi-media programming for it.  She is also one of the brightest conductors of her generation – not only in possession of exceptional artistic vision, but also of a doctorate from the University of Oxford, and a natural affinity for languages: she speaks seven languages and is now tackling her eighth.

The 2023-2024 concert season sees von Wiehler make her debut with the Southbank Sinfonia (UK), the Hohot Philharmonic Orchestra (China), and the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, with whom she also is performing a regional tour across four cities in France. Von Wiehler also conducts the world premiere of a new work by Augusta Read Thomas at Carnegie Hall, where she leads the Sejong Soloists. In autumn 2023, she commenced her position as Assistant Conductor at Opéra National de Bordeaux, where her role entails conducting regular rehearsals, and concerts, and assisting and covering for over a dozen guest conductors. 

Alongside her guest conducting and work in France, von Wiehler continues her tenure as Music Director of Orchestra VOX in Oxford, UK, where her programming includes UK premieres of works by Cuban-American composer Tania Léon, an ambitious double-bill opera of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, and a programme designed to reveal the psychological intricacies of Shakespeare’s character Ophelia from Hamlet, featuring the music of Hans Abrahamsen, Sergei Prokofiev, and fused theatre and film elements.