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Dorothy Khadem-Missagh: A Milestone for Women in the Conducting World
The Vienna Musikverein experienced a special event: the Lower Austrian pianist and conductor Dorothy Khadem-Missagh made her debut as a conductor in this renowned concert hall on the occasion of International Women's Day. Conducting the Beethoven Spring Festival Orchestra, which she founded, she presented a program that paid tribute to strong women in music history.
With her debut as a conductor at the Vienna Musikverein, Dorothy Khadem-Missagh has taken another important step in her impressive career and set a strong example for the role of women in classical music. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Bwag / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Dorothy Khadem-Missagh was born in Mödling in 1992 and grew up in a family of musicians in Baden near Vienna. She received her first piano lessons at the age of three and was accepted to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna at the age of six. Her musical education took her to the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied…
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