Karen Gorden

Karen Gorden is a conductor and music director for symphony, opera, and contemporary classical music.
Musical life and career.
Gorden’s conducting career is associated with significant musical centres in Europe, the United States, and Asia such as the Staatsoper Berlin, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, India. 
Known as "a musician's conductor", Gorden has also been consistently welcomed by a wide and diverse international audience. She is an outspoken advocate for global accessibility and sustainability for the arts, which led her to found FORCULTURE in 2014. 
 
Gorden is a graduate, with top honors, of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and the Yale University School of Music. Her contributions to music have been recognized with the Special Jury Prize from the 50th Concours International d'Exécution Musicale for Conductors, the Prix Nadia Boulanger in France, and the Opera Award at the State Theatre Opava in the Czech Republic. 