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About Gemma New
- Gemma New (born December 27, 1986) is a New Zealand-born music director and conductor. Born into a musical family, New began violin studies at age 5, and piano lessons at age 8.
- By age 12, she was playing in a youth orchestra in Wellington.
- As a teenager, she conducted the Christchurch Youth Orchestra. New read physics, mathematics, and music at the University of Canterbury, from which she graduated with a degree in music.
- She later earned a graduate degree in music from Baltimore, Maryland's Peabody Institute.New founded and directed the Maryland music collective Lunar Ensemble, with which she has premiered 26 compositions.
- New was assistant conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2016.
- In the 2014-2015 season, she was a Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
- For 2014, she was a Kurt Masur conducting fellow. In May 2015, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra named New as its next music director, the first female conductor ever named to the post.
- This appointment marked New's first music directorship.
- Her first performance in the post was in February 2016.
- In May 2017, the Hamilton Philharmonic extended New's contract as music director through the 2020-2021 season.In June 2016, New was appointed resident conductor of the St.
- Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) and music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra .
- In September 2018, New directed the opening concerts of the SLSO's 2018-2019 season, the first female conductor ever to do so.
- In October 2018, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of New as its next principal guest conductor, the first female conductor to hold the title, effective with the 2019-2020 season.
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