American conductor Tamara Dworetz is driven by her belief in the power of classical music to inspire, spread joy and enrich the human experience.

Tamara Dworetz’s 2025-26 season includes debuts with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SONA). She is in her 3rd season as Artistic Director & Conductor of the Georgia Philharmonic, which performs five subscription concerts a year, in addition to special events like World Wrestling Entertainment & DragonCon.

Dworetz has conducted the Cincinnati Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Boston Pops, Sarasota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Paris Mozart Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and Mankato Symphony. Recently, Tamara conducted her first staged opera, Bizet’s Carmen. She has served as an assistant and/or cover conductor for the Orchestre de Paris (Klaus Mäkelä), Gürzenich Orchestre Cologne (François-Xavier Roth), BBC Concert Orchestra (Bramwell Tovey) and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Nathalie Stutzmann) and Minnesota Orchestra (Johnathon Heyward & Marta Gardolińska). She won 2nd prize in the Boston Pops‘ Leonard Bernstein Conducting Competition and was a recipient of the Bruno Walter Conducting Fellowship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music selected by Cristian Măcelaru.

Tamara is featured in a Netflix documentary called ‚Maestra‘, directed by Maggie Contreras and produced by David Letterman. The film centers around 5 conducting participants in the 2022 La Maestra Conducting Competition and Academy for Women Conductors in Paris, France and has been highlighted by the NY Times, LA Times, CBS National News as well as international film festivals, including Tribeca, where it was premiered. In the 2022 competition, Tamara was the only US-born conductor and earned a spot as one of 6 semi-finalists.

A devoted music educator, Tamara’s musical beginnings took place in the Atlanta public school system and she is passionate about fostering enriching musical experiences for K-12 and pre-professional musicians. She serves as Associate Conductor of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestras, NYO-USA & NYO2 and has traveled on their South American Tour, assisting Marin Alsop and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.  Tamara is Director of Orchestral Studies at Georgia State University and Charles Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professor in Instrumental Music. She has served guest conducting residencies at University of Texas Butler School of Music, Boston University School of Music, SUNY Fredonia School of Music, and the Longy Conservatory Orchestra at Bard College. She has guest conducted All-State Orchestras in Texas, Virginia, Indiana, Colorado, Georgia and Washington (All-Northwest) as well as the Atlanta Music Project and worked with the Atlanta, Austin, Emory and Boston Youth Orchestras. She maintains a graduate conducting studio at Georgia State University and has led conducting workshops for music educators and young musicians.

Tamara and her husband, Stephen, live in Chamblee, Georgia with their dog, Emmy.​