Marie Jacquot has established herself as one of the leading young conductors of her generation, with a reputation for exploring a wide range of repertoire and delivering inspiring and joyful performances.  Marie is equally at home in the symphonic concert halls as in the opera pit and finding the right balance between opera and symphonic commitments is of utmost importance to her. The 2020/2021 season marks he second as first Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. Prior to this appointment, Marie was first Kapellmeister at Wurzburger Opera House as well as assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Recent and future highlights include appearances with the Wiener Symphoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO), the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Rhode Island Philharmonic among others. Marie is nominated for the 2020 International Opera Award in the conducting category: “newcomer of the year “.