Canadian conductor Naomi Woo holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and is the 2022 winner of the Canada Council's Virginia Parker Prize. She recently completed a two-season tenure as assistant conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, leading dozens of performances including subscription concerts and appearances at the orchestra's summer homes in Saratoga and at the Mann Center. Past engagements include debuts with the New York Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and Royal Ballet and Opera (Oliver Leith's Last Days), as well as the Canadian premiere of Du Yun's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel's Bone in Vancouver and a return to Opera Holland Park for Turandot. From 2023 to 2025, she served as artistic partner of Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain and music director of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Engagements for 2026/27 include Calgary Philharmonic's Classical series, followed by debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre National de France, New World Symphony and Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.