The Opéra national de Lorraine has announced the appointment of Marta Gardolinska as Music Director. The Polish conductor will take up her position as of the 2021/2022 season for a period of three years.
Born in 1988 in Warsaw, she studied conducting at the Frederic Chopin University in Warsaw and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2015 she was appointed Principal Conductor of the Akademischer Orchesterverein Wien and in the 2017/18 season she became Conductor and Artistic Director of TU-Orchester Wien. In 2018 she became Associate Young Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In the 2019/20 season she joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a member of the Dudamel Fellowship Program.