Michal Oren is an award-winning conductor and a clarinettist from Tel-Aviv, Israel. Recently she was awarded the Female Conductor Trainee position at Opera North in Leeds, UK (2024-2025). From September 2024, she will be studying for her Professional Diploma in conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Previously, she graduated from her master’s studies in orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music in London as a Victor and Lilian Hochhauser Scholar. She was awarded distinction for her two Bachelors of Music in orchestral conducting and clarinet performance from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at the Tel Aviv University. Michal won the 1 st prize in the 4 th International Academy and Competition of Orchestra Conducting in Estoril, Portugal (2023) and the 2nd prize of the 3rd International Orchestral Conducting Competition “Universidad de Almeria”, Spain (2023). In 2024, Michal joined the Women Conductors’ Programme of the Royal Philharmonic Society with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. She is the current Residence Music Scholar of the Robert Anderson Trust (2022-2025), and since 2015, scholar of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (with the highest distinction for 2024-2026). In June 2024, she was invited by maestro Martyn Brabbins to share a concert with him and the London-based Salomon Orchestra, and participated in his masterclass with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow. Michal is also the founder and musical curator of the “Museum Orchestra” of the Petach-Tikva Museum of Art in Israel.