Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant

Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant is the Chair of the Music Department and Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. She directs the Duke University Wind Symphony and serves as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Durham Medical Orchestra (dmomusic.org). Verena is also the Associate Artistic Director of the Mid EUROPE festival and the Executive Director of the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project and the World Adult Wind Orchestra Project. 

Originally from Eberschwang, Austria, Verena began piano lessons at the age of six and later expanded her studies to include the church organ, flute, and bassoon. She made her conducting debut at 16, followed by a three-year fundamental conducting course under Johann Mösenbichler. Verena pursued symphony orchestra conducting with Ingo Ingensand at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Upper Austria, earning her bachelor’s degree with distinction in 2005. She completed her Master of Music in 2007 at Michigan State University under Kevin Sedatole, and in May 2009, she graduated with a DMA in Wind Ensemble Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Jerry Junkin.

Her transcriptions of John Corigliano’s Grammy-winning work Mr. Tambourine Man for Wind Ensemble and Amplified Soprano, published by G. Schirmer, and Eric Whitacre’s Sing Gently and Goodnight Moon, published by Hal Leonard, have been highly praised by the composers and performed widely.

In addition, Verena is the Music Director and Conductor of the Schwäbisches Jugendblasorchester in Germany, recently conducted Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience, and frequently serves as a guest conductor, judge, and clinician across the United States, Asia, and Europe.