Marie Jacquot is a conductor of extraordinary calibre, being in high demand by numerous orchestras and opera houses.

She has been Principal Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre since the start of the 2024/25 season. Prior to that, she had already received high praise in Copenhagen for her performances of, among others, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, and Gounod’s Faust.

Born in Paris and raised in Chartres, Marie Jacquot preferred playing tennis to the piano in her youth, but she was also captivated by the trombone, and at the age of fifteen she decided to devote herself entirely to music. She studied trombone in Paris and later conducting in Vienna and Weimar. Since completing her conducting studies in 2014, she has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the world of classical music.

She has conducted many of Europe’s finest orchestras - as the Staatskapelle Dresden, BR-SO Munich, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de France, BBC-Symphony Orchestra - as well as important orchestras outside of Europe, like the Cleveland Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. She further was a guest at several of Europe’s most renowned opera houses.

Since the 2023/2024 season, she has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and from the 2026/2027 season she will become Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she served as Erste Kapellmeisterin at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg as well as Erste Kapellmeisterin and Deputy Music Director at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.

In 2025, Marie Jacquot made her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, as well as with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. In the spring of 2026, she will conduct one of her absolute favourite composers, Richard Strauss, in Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera Elisabeth Linton’s new staging of Der Rosenkavalier.

Among her distinctions and nominations are the Ernst Schuch Conducting Award in 2019. In 2020 she was nominated as “Newcomer of the Year” at the International Opera Awards, and in February 2024 she won the Révélation/Chef d'orchestre award at the Victoires de la Musique Classique.

Marie Jacquot will serve as Principal Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre from 2024 - 2029.

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