Biography
Bianca Maretti was born in the United-States but first studied conducting in Brazil, where she lived most of her life. She obtained a laureate bachelor’s degree in orchestra and choir conducting at the São Paulo State University (Unesp), one of the country’s most respected universities. In 2015, she moved to Paris and obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in musicology at Sorbonne University, where she completed with honor a research about women conductors. She then decided to pursue her research by producing a PhD thesis on the feminization of orchestral conducting while also teaching at the musicology department of the Sorbonne.
Bianca continued studying conducting throughout her academic years. She obtained a superior diploma in orchestra conducting at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, in Dominique Rouits’ and Julien Masmondet’s class, and a choir conducting diploma at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, in Marc Korovitch’s class. Her deep desire to learn has led her to participate in masterclasses around the world with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kensho Watanabe, Michalis Economou, Claire Gibault, Aurélien Azan Zielinski and Roberto Tibiriçá, in which she had the opportunity to lead the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Athens Philharmonia Orchestra and more.
As an assistant, Bianca worked with Julien Masmondet, Jean-Philippe Sarcos and Benjamin Garzia, amongst others. She made her debut in the Hague in 2021 with the concert New Music for Software Synths and conducted in 2022 the project Je rêve de rêver at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. In 2023, she worked with the flutist Seohyeon Kim in the recording of the album Dali (Passerelle), under the label INITIALE.
She regularly works with Parisian orchestras like Désinence, Les Clés d’Euphonia, Note et Bien and the COGE Symphony Orchestra and Choir, with whom she interpreted masterpieces such as Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and the French premiere of Mignone’s Maracatu do Chico Rei. Bianca is currently the artistic director of the Orchestre Symphonique Alfred Loewenguth, the vocal ensemble Les Goûts Réunis and the Grand-Orly Seine-Bièvre Démos Orchestra. Since September 2024 she is also the conductor of the Orchestra cycle and the Amateur Orchestra of the Philharmonie de Paris.
