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Nathalie STUTZMANN<\/h2>\n

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Nathalie Stutzmann is the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She has renewed her collaboration with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for a further three years, extending her tenure through the 2028\u201329 season. Starting from the 2026\u201327 season, she will also be the Artistic and Musical Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, becoming the first woman to hold this position in Monte Carlo. Nathalie was Principal Guest Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 2021\u20132024.<\/p>\n

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On the symphonic stage, Nathalie\u2019s 2025-26 season includes major debuts with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She also returns to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic. In Atlanta, her season features key pillars of the Romantic repertoire, including Bruckner\u2019s Symphony No. 6, Schubert\u2019s Symphony No. 9, Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 6, Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben<\/em>, Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2, and Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9, concluding the \u201cBeethoven Project\u201d, a cycle she began with the orchestra in the previous season.<\/p>\n

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Nathalie has developed a close and ongoing connection with the Bayreuth Festival, where she conducted Wagner\u2019s Tannh\u00e4user<\/em> in both 2023 and 2024. Her interpretation was met with exceptional acclaim, with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em> praising her as \u201ca genius who makes the music irresistible\u201d, and she was named Best Conductor of the Year at the 2024 Oper! Awards. In 2026, she returns to Bayreuth for the Festival\u2019s 150th anniversary to lead, for the first time at the festival’s Festspielhaus, a new production of Rienzi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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In a season marked by opera, she also made her debut in the Munich opera pit at the Bayerische Staatsoper, conducting a new production of Gounod\u2019s Faust. <\/em>She opened the 2025\u201326 season at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam with Tosca<\/em>, following her highly successful 2024-25 season closer conducting Carmen<\/em> at La Monnaie in Brussels.<\/p>\n

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An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics\/Erato, Nathalie\u2019s first symphonic release on the label\u2014Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 9 and American Suite<\/em> with the Atlanta Symphony\u2014was released in August 2024 and earned her cover recognition on Gramophone<\/em> magazine. The album was featured by The New York Times<\/em> in its list of \u201c5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now,\u201d highlighting it among the season\u2019s must-hear recordings. It also received OPUS Klassik nominations for both Best Conductor and Best Symphonic Recording of the Year.<\/p>\n

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This followed her 2023 OPUS Klassik win for Concerto Recording of the Year, awarded for her album featuring Gli\u00e8re and Mosolov harp concertos with Xavier de Maistre and the WDR Sinfonieorchester. In 2022, she also released the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra, which Gramophone<\/em> hailed as \u201ca brilliant collaboration that I urge you not to miss\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Nathalie started her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, and cello, and studied conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula. As one of the world\u2019s most celebrated contraltos, she has made over 80 recordings and received numerous international accolades. She has been named a Chevalier de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur and Commandeur dans l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2025 was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.<\/p>\n

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