Stephanie Childress first led the North Carolina Symphony in 2021 for concerts in Raleigh with a program including Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, selections from Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.

Assistant Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons from 2020 through 2022, Stephanie Childress also served as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. She began her 2022/23 season with a Glyndebourne Festival debut conducting Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at home in Lewes and on tour. Alongside the opera production, Childress also conducted the Glyndebourne Festival orchestra and chorus for performances of Mozart’s Requiem. Her 2022/23 season also includes debuts with Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, and New World Symphony Orchestra.

Childress also has strong connections to the Opera de Paris and in spring 2023 she joins Carlo Rizzi as assistant conductor for Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. She has been an assistant conductor at the English National Opera and conducted Jeremy Sams’ The Enchanted Island with the British Youth Opera, Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at St John’s College (Cambridge), Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement for the Cambridge University Opera Society, and the world premiere of Anna Semple’s The Next Station Is Green Park at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.