Marie Jacquot
Since autumn 2019, she has been First Kapellmeister at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg, where she conducts among others »Samson et Dalila«, »Roméo et Juliette«, »La Traviata« and »La Clemenza di Tito« as well as concerts of both the Düsseldorf Symphony and Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In the season 2021/22 she will conduct new productions of »Orphée aux enfers« and »The Nutcracker«.
Marie Jacquot’s enthusiastically received debuts of the past seasons include Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart (Cherubini’s »Medea«), MDR-Musiksommer, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Munich Radio Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker and the orchestra of the Opéra national de Lorraine. She was invited by the Bayerische Staatsoper to conduct two world premieres (»Tonguecat«, »Die Vorübergehenden«) as part of the Munich Opera Festival after assisting GMD Kirill Petrenko in the world premiere of »South Pole«.
In the season 2021/22 she makes her debut with the Dresden Philharmonic and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, at the
Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen (»Faust«) and at the Semperoper Dresden (»Carmen«, »Der goldene Drache«). Furthermore, she returns to Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker as well as Staatsoper Stuttgart (»Don Giovanni«).
From 2016 to 2019, Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeisterin and deputy GMD at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Here, she conducted the new productions of »Nabucco«, »Die Csardasfürstin«, »King Arthur«, »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and »Hänsel und Gretel«, as well as the revival of »Idomeneo«.
After studies of the trombone in Paris, Marie Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar (Nicolas Pasquet) and in several master classes. Scholarships from SYLFF of Tokyo Foundation, Aspen Music Festival and the New Liszt Trust Weimar followed, since 2016, she has been a scholar of Dirigentenforum / Deutscher Musikrat (Second funding stage from 2019 onwards). She received the »Ernst-von-Schuch-Preis« in 2019 and was nominated as »Newcomer of the year« by the International Opera Awards in February 2020.