Hannah von Wiehler is a trailblazing conductor who leads orchestras across Europe, the USA, and Asia, and served for 8 years as Music Director of the UK’s Orchestra VOX.

Known for combining fierce creativity with entrepreneurship, von Wiehler launched Orchestra VOX in Oxford, UK in 2016 – a chamber orchestra dedicated to the intersection of classical music and social impact. From 2016 to 2024, she conducted over 100 concerts, operas, and multimedia performances which she wrote and designed. 

The 2025–26 season features major debuts with London’s Gothic Opera (conducting the UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s Die Rheinnixen), alongside return collaborations with leading European orchestras including the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, and a tour of Estonia with the acclaimed Hoffman Ball Gala.

Highlights of recent seasons include von Wiehler’s debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with the Sejong Soloists, where she conducted the world premiere of Haemosu’s Celestial Chariot Ride, by Augusta Read Thomas, as well as debuts with leading European orchestras such as Italy’s Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and France’s Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Von Wiehler appears frequently in the UK, on numerous occasions with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Holland Park, and the London Chamber Orchestra (with whom, in addition to concert work, she also has recorded two albums of the works of Ruth Gipps and Benjamin Britten). Before the outbreak of war in 2022, she conducted frequently in Ukraine and Russia, including orchestras like the International Symphony Orchestra Lviv, the Kaluga Symphony Orchestra and Yakutsk State Symphony Orchestra.  

As Music Director of Orchestra VOX, her daring programming has included UK premieres of works by  Caroline Shaw, Steve Reich, and Harrison Birtwistle, an ambitious double-bill opera of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, and multimedia performances such as her original project, Ophelia: an exploration of the psychological intricacies of Shakespeare’s character Ophelia from Hamlet, featuring the music of composers Hans Abrahamsen, Sergei Prokofiev, and fused elements of film and live theatre. Throughout her tenure, she also prioritized experimenting with friendly, non-traditional performance spaces in order to encourage wider community access to classical music, and as such the orchestra has performed in homeless shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, refugee detention centers, and even bars, in addition to traditional concert halls.

She has assisted Simone Young at the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) and Barbara Hannigan at the London Symphony Orchestra. In the 2023-2024 season, she was the Assistant Conductor at France’s Opéra National de Bordeaux. In 2022, she trained at the Tanglewood Conducting Seminar, and was a Visiting Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival. 

She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, a bachelor’s from Georgetown University in Russian Literature, and studied violin performance at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory.