JoAnna Cochenet is a conductor and violist. She has held conductor and director positions for several community organizations with orchestra and choir and has been engaged numerous times as Guest, Cover Conductor, and Clinician, including for several orchestra festivals and other concerts and rehearsals around the United States. She has conducted professional orchestras and soloists in master class-competitions, concerts, and rehearsals in the United States and Ukraine, studying under prominent working conductors and working with both instrumental and opera soloists. JoAnna has also been engaged as a music lecturer, consultant, mentor, and coach, and adjudicator, and has taught and mentored for over 20 years. As a violist (and violinist), she has a wide variety of professional performing experiences around the United States and abroad. She holds a DMA in Orchestral Conducting, a MM in Orchestral Conducting and Viola Performance, a BM in Instrumental Music Education, and a Viola Performance Certificate.