These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Marie Jacquot.

Since the 2023/24 season, Marie Jacquot has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Wiener Symphoniker, whom she has led on tour in addition to concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Bregenz Festival. Starting with season 2024/25, she also serves as Chief Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen, and she has appeared this season with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra with violinist Paul Huang, Orchestre national de France, and Oslo Philharmonic. From 2026/27 on, she will be Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra.

Successful debuts and re-invitations of recent seasons include a new production of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin at the Copenhagen Opera; a world premiere by Marc-André Dalbavie at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; and concerts with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and the symphony orchestras of Dallas and Gothenburg, as well as DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Between 2016 and 2019, Jacquot was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director in Würzburg. From 2019, she was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg for three years.

After studying trombone in Paris, Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar and 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 von Schuch Conducting Prize in 2019, as well as a nomination for “Newcomer of the year” at the International Opera Awards. In February 2024 she won the palm “Révélation / Chef d’orchestre” at the 31st Victoires de la musique classique.