Dr. Anna Binneweg has distinguished herself in the areas of symphonic and operatic conducting early in her career. She is the Music Director/Conductor of the orchestra at Anne Arundel Community College where she also serves as Assistant Professor of Music, and is the newly appointed Music Director/Conductor of the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra (Edgewater, MD). In Chicago, she is the Music Director/Conductor of OperaModa, a company committed to producing and performing modern American opera featuring local young artists. She holds a doctor of music degree in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University where she studied with Victor Yampolsky, and has served on the conducting faculties at Loyola University (Chicago, IL) the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (Chicago, IL) and American University (Washington, DC).

Dr. Binneweg made her conducting debut at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra in the 2005 National Conducting Institute, and currently serves as one of their cover conductors. She has worked with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Robert Spano, James Paul, Michael Morgan, Duaine Wolfe, Nurhan Arman and David Effron through various engagements sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors Guild, the Conductors Institute of New York and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.  

She is a graduate of the Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) where she completed a double master’s degree in conducting and music education while serving as the assistant conductor of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to the development of music education, her youth orchestra experience includes various guest conducting and clinician appearances with orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, along with former positions with the Houston Youth Symphony (Houston, TX) and the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony (San Luis Obispo, CA) where she fulfilled her undergraduate degree in music at Cal Poly State University. Binneweg is a native of Lake Tahoe, California.