Bridget Kinneary

Bridget Kinneary is an orchestral conductor, educator, violist and collaborative artist. In Berlin, she works at the Berlin Cosmopolitan School, where she both conducts the orchestra and promotes the musical education of the students. Bridget Kinneary holds a Master of Business Administration in Arts Innovation (2023) from Woolf University and the Global Leaders Institute. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music Education and Viola Performance and a Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music (2015) and a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the City University of New York, Queens College (2024).

Her international experience includes workshops and guest conducting with renowned orchestras worldwide, including the Harare Youth Orchestra in Zimbabwe, the National Youth Orchestra of Belize, El Sistema Sweden in Gothenburg and Kaitia College and El Sistema Whangārei in Northern New Zealand. She has also attended conducting masterclasses with Kristjan Järvi (Tartu, Estonia) and Sasha Mälakiä (Helsinki, Finland) to further hone her craft. Her festival appearances include viola performance at the Texas Music Festival and serving as score reader and musical cue director for the video broadcast team at the Sun Valley Music Festival.

Bridget values international collaboration and sharing perspectives on music education, two topics she is able to combine perfectly as Music Director at MitMachMusik.