Chief Conductor Royal Danish Theatre
Principal Guest Conductor Wiener Symphoniker
Chief Conductor Designated WDR Symphony Orchestra
Marie Jacquot has played her way into the forefront of exciting young conductors through numerous outstanding debuts with top-class orchestras, her consistent musical work and her interest in exploring a wide-ranging repertoire.
Starting with the 2024/25 season, she is Chief Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen, where she conducted productions of Manfred Trojahn's Orest and Giacomo Puccini's Trittico in her first season, as well as works by Richard Strauss, W.A. Mozart, E. W. Korngold and Signe Lykke on the concert podium. Since the 2023/24 season, Marie Jacquot has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, with whom she can be heard in concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, at the Bregenz Festival and on tour. From 2026/27, she will as well be chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
In 2024/25, Marie Jacquot gave her debuts with the Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In addition, she conducted the opera premiere Guercœur at Oper Frankfurt, lead a tour through Germany with the Wiener Symphoniker and returned to the US with concerts in North Carolina and Detroit.
Successful debuts and re-invitations of the past seasons include a.o. Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Cologne, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, HR Frankfurt and mdr Leipzig, as well as DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra as well as Yomiuri Nippon symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her activities with the Wiener Symphoniker and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the 2025/26 season will take Marie Jacquot to London, where she will give her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, following various summer concerts in USA and Canada. She will also make her debut at the Royal Opera House London (The Magic Flute), conduct Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. She will also return, among others, to Staatskapelle Dresden and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Marie Jacquot has further conducted premieres and performances in a wide repertoire at prominent opera houses, including the Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin (world-premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Melancholy of Resistance) Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg , Flemish Opera Antwerp/Gent, and the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy. In the 2025/26 season, she will return to Semperoper Dresden with a new production of Dialogues des Carmélites, at the Royal Danish Theatre she will conduct the premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, among other works.
Between 2016 and 2019, Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director in Würzburg. From 2019, she was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg for three years.
After studying trombone in Paris, Marie Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar, she held a scholarship of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council. In 2016, she was assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera for the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's "South Pole" and subsequently conducted two productions of her own at the Munich Opera Festival.
Her awards include the "Ernst Schuch Prize" in 2019, as well as a nomination for "Newcomer of the year" at the International Opera Awards. In February 2024 she won the palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st “Victoires de la Musique Classique”.
