Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Artistic and Music Director Designate of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

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 2028–29 season. Starting from the 2026–27 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 2021–2024.

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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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”

Nathalie Stutzmann’s Warner Classics Bruckner album with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to Bruckner 4th Symphony “Romantic”.

Now comes the release of another symphony from the later 19th century – the Symphony No 4 by Anton Bruckner. Stutzmann finds his music particularly fulfilling: “I believe that Bruckner’s symphonies are universal,” she has said, “They represent the longing for the eternal. He leads listeners into a unique world that they would otherwise never enter.” 2024 marked Bruckner’s bicentenary and Stutzmann, in her third season as Music Director in Atlanta, made a powerful impact with several of his works in a series of sold-out concerts. “This was go-for-broke music-making, with the orchestra in top-notch form,” wrote the Atlanta-based music website EarRelevant. “Bruckner benefits from a free rein … The symphony concluded in a blaze of triumph, eliciting cheers from the audience …In short, a concert of grace and glory, a consolation and inspiration in our divisive times.”

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