JGRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell is recognized worldwide as one of today’s most captivating interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire. Praised by BBC Music Magazine for “forging a vibrant, life-affirming approach to early music,” she was the subject of the 2023 feature documentary PLAYING WITH FIRE: Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting by Academy Award–winning director Allan Miller.

Bridging the period-instrument and symphonic traditions from an early age, Sorrell studied conducting with Leonard Bernstein, Roger Norrington, and Robert Spano at the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals. As a harpsichordist, she trained with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam and went on to win both First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Spivey International Harpsichord Competition, emerging from a field of more than 70 international competitors.

As a guest conductor, Sorrell made her New York Philharmonic debut in 2021 to glowing reviews and returned in 2023. She has appeared regularly with the Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), and New World Symphony. Additional highlights include performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Opera St. Louis with the St. Louis Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia (UK), Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Spain), Grand Rapids Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall. In the 2024–25 season, she makes her debuts with the Detroit Symphony and New Jersey Symphony, while also returning to the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Colburn School.

Founder and artistic director of the acclaimed period ensemble Apollo’s Fire, Sorrell has led the group in sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall, London’s BBC Proms, Madrid’s Royal Theatre, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and many other prestigious venues across North America and Europe. At home in Cleveland, she and Apollo’s Fire have cultivated one of the largest audiences of any Baroque orchestra in North America.