Kalena Bovell | |
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 Kalena Bovell in 2021, taken by Jamie Pratt | |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Website | https://www.kalenabovell.com/ |
Kalena Bovell is an American conductor. As of 2020, Bovell is the only practicing conductor in the United States with both African-American and Hispanic heritage.
Bovell grew up in Los Angeles after her parents moved there from Panama. [1] [2] She began singing at the age of nine and came to classical music when she joined a beginning strings class at age eleven. Being seven years self taught, her first private lesson occurred when she was 18. [3] Bovell played the violin. [2] She discovered her love of conducting as a sophomore at Chapman University which she
graduated from in 2009. [1] [4] She attended graduate school at the Hartt School. [1]
Bovell has worked as the orchestra director at the Loomis Chaffee School and in 2015 staged the Swan Princess , an adaptation of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. [5]
In 2017, the Chicago Tribune wrote that her skill at conducting Slavonic Dances : Opus 46 No. 2 and Opus 72 No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák was "brilliant". [6]
Bovell became the assistant conductor for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 2019. [5] As of 2020 [update] Bovell is the only African-American and Hispanic conductor in the United States. [3]
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