Marie Jacquot

Brief profile

Beginning with the 2026/27 season, Marie Jacquot will start her position as principal conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra, with which she already feels a close connection through a wide variety of projects.

Marie Jacquot also serves as principal conductor of the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen, where, in addition to productions of Manfred Trojahn’s Orest, Gounod’s Faust, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Puccini’s Trittico, and, most recently, Der Rosenkavalier, she also regularly conducts concerts with the Royal Chapel of Copenhagen, considered the world’s oldest orchestra. She served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker (2023–2026), with whom she performed concerts at Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, at Bregenz Festival, and on tour.

After studying trombone in Paris, Marie Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar, she held a scholarship of the German Music Council. In 2016, she was named assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera for the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s South Pole and subsequently conducted two productions at the Munich Opera Festival.

She has been awarded the “Ernst Schuch Prize” in 2019, and the 2024 palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st “Victoires de la Musique Classique”.

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