Ana María Patiño-Osorio
Praised for “strength and her tranquillity of being” (Le Temps), Ana María Patiño-Osorio has been gathering praise as a remarkable conductor, expressing wisdom, finesse, and deep respect for music.
Born in Medellín, Colombia, she will assume the role of Music Director of Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín starting in February 2026 and serves as the 25/26 Dudamel Conducing Fellow with Los Angeles Philharmonic. In April 2024 she captured the international attention at the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen, winning the Second Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Youth Jury Prize.
The 25/26 season marks a series of prominent debuts in Europe and North America. Ana María will tour the Basque Country with the Euskadiko Orkestra (Basque National Orchestra) and debut with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE in Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Arctic Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She also returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay (SODRE).
In recent seasons, Ana María collaborated with the Orchestre national Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Geneva Camerata, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá.
Committed to working with young musicians, since 2015 Ana María has also been involved with Iberacademy Orchestra in Medellín, where she has been assisting its co-founder and conductor Roberto González-Monjas in a multitude of projects. In October 2023, she conducted the Iberacademy Orchestra at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. The following year, she has led a highly successful European tour with Orquesta Juvenil Sinfonía por el Perú and celebrated tenor Juan Diego Flórez with performances in Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna, Geneva and Pars, shortly after conducted the orchestra of The Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Ana began her musical training as a saxophonist before transitioning to orchestral conducting. She completed her undergraduate degree in Orchestra Conducting at the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín before being accepted to the prestigious master’s programme of Orchestral Conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under Johannes Schlaefli, where she graduated with honours in 2021. In 2022 Ana Maríá has been appointed Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the first person to hold in this position, working closely with Jonathan Nott for two seasons until 2024. A finalist in the Solti International Conducting Competition with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in 2020, Ana is also the recipient of the 2021 National Prize for best Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá, and a winner of the Conducting Fellowship at Dirigentenforum des Deutschen Musikrates Germany in 2019.
