Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Nathalie Stutzmann is the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She was Principal Guest Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 2021-2024.

In Atlanta, her season features key pillars of the Romantic repertoire, including Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, concluding the Beethoven Project, a cycle she began with the orchestra in the previous season.

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

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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, American Suite

Nathalie Stutzmann’s Warner Classics & Erato Dvorak album with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra includes Dvorak’s ‘From the New World’ and the ‘American Suite’.

“Our first album is dedicated to Dvořák, with his ‘New World’ Symphony and American Suite, recorded live with the musicians of my Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It is a lovely tribute to my amazing commitments across the Atlantic, but also to the new horizons opening up for our exciting collaboration.”

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