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 will be conducting 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 will give her debuts with the Orchestre National de France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In addition, she will conduct the opera premiere Guercœur at Oper Frankfurt, will lead a tour through Germany with the Wiener Symphoniker and will return to the US with concerts in North Carolina and Detroit.

In her past season 2023-24, Marie Jacquot made her debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin with the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Melancholy of Resistance and conducted a new production of Eugene Onegin at the Copenhagen Opera. In addition to her projects with The Wiener Symphoniker, she gave concerts with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Successful debuts and re-invitations of the past seasons include a.o. Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, WDR Cologne, HR Frankfurt and mdr Leipzig, as well as the DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Marie Jacquot has further conducted premieres and performances in a wide repertoire at prominent opera houses, including the Semperoper Dresden (Eötvös' "The Golden Dragon", "Carmen"), Staatsoper Stuttgart ("Medée", "Don Giovanni"), Deutsche Oper Berlin ("Latraviata"), Komische Oper Berlin (Thomas' "Hamlet"), Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg (world premiere by Thierry Pécou), Flemish Opera Antwerp/Gent ("Le nozze di Figaro") and the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy ("L'amour des trois oranges").

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