Marie Jacquot

Brief profile

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.

Marie Jacquot is Chief Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen, where she conducted productions of Manfred Trojahn’s Orest, Gounod’s Faust, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Puccini’s Trittico, as well as concerts of the Royal Danish Orchestra, considered the oldest orchestra in the world. She is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, with whom she performs in concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the Bregenz Festival, and on tour. From 2026/27, she will be Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra.

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. In February 2024 she won the palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st “Victoires de la Musique Classique”.

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