French conductor Marie Jacquot has garnered international attention for her outstanding collaborations with top-class orchestras and opera houses exploring a wide-range of repertoire.

Following concert appearances with Cleveland Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Symphony,  and  National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa (NAC) Jacquot concludes this summer season in London with a BBC Proms debut with the BBC Symphony.

The 2025/26 season will bring further debuts with the Royal Opera House in London (The Magic Flute), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala, and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, as well as returns to the Staatskapelle Dresden and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Jacquot  begins her tenure as chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in 2026/27.

Highlights of her 2024/2025 season include debuts with the Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Detroit Symphony and North Carolina Symphony. She conducted the premiere of Magnard’s Guercœur at Oper Frankfurt, lead the Wiener Symphoniker on a tour of Germany, and, in her first season as Chief Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen, conducted productions of Manfred Trojahn's Orest and Puccini's Trittico, as well as several symphonic concerts with works by  R. Strauss, Mozart, Korngold, and Signe Lykke. Since the 2023/24 season, 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, the Bregenz Festival, and on tour.  

Past seasons have seen her at the helm of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Cologne, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, HR Frankfurt, MDR Leipzig, DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Swedish Radio, Dallas Symphony, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Jaquot has also conducted premieres and performances at the Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, the three Berlin opera houses: Deutsche Oper, Komische Oper and the Staatsoper (giving the 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.

After studying trombone in Paris, Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar. 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. Between 2016 and 2019, Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director in Würzburg. From 2019 to 2023, she was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.  She has been awarded the 2019 "Ernst Schuch Prize,” and the 2024 palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st “Victoires de la Musique Classique”.

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