Boston College Symphony Orchestra Director Anna Wittstruck has been selected for the American Prize in Conducting in the college/university orchestra division. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts—the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts—recognizes and rewards the best performing artists, directors, ensembles, and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community, and high school levels, based on submitted recordings.  

Wittstruck joined the Music Department faculty this fall as an associate professor of the practice, and succeeded John Finney as BC Symphony director. She served for six years as assistant professor and director of orchestra in the School of Music at University of Puget Sound, and for two years as acting assistant professor and interim music director of the Stanford University Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia.

She has also directed the Federal Way Youth Symphonies, served on the faculty of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Alaska, and conducted concerts across the United States and in China, Mexico City, Havana, Prague, Vienna, and Berlin, among other places.