Ana María Patiño-Osorio
About this Artist
Ana María Patiño-Osorio won the Second Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Youth Jury Prize at the 2024 Malko Competition for young conductors held in Copenhagen. Between 2022 and 2024, she served as Assistant Conductor for the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR), the first person appointed in this position, where she worked closely with Music & Artistic Director Jonathan Nott. Since this appointment, Ana has been gathering praise as a remarkable conductor, expressing wisdom, finesse, and deep respect for music. In January 2023, Ana successfully stepped in on short notice to conduct the OSR in a program featuring violinist Daniel Lozakovich and pianist Mikhail Pletnev as soloists, of which Le Temps wrote “the entire performance of Ana María Patiño-Osorio impressed with her strength and her tranquillity of being.”
Ana’s most notable guest engagements in the 2023/24 season included conducting the Iberacademy Orchestra at Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay (SODRE), Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín, and Sinfonía por el Perú, with whom she toured Europe in September 2024. Featuring acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flórez, the tour included concerts at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Wiener Konzerthaus, Victoria Hall in Geneva, and Philharmonie de Paris. Further engagements in 24/25 season include returns to the OSR for a for a subscription week and Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, as well as debuts with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Geneva Camerata, Orquesta de Extremadura, Royal Northern Sinfonia, George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest, Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and Sofia Philharmonic.
Ana began her musical training as a saxophonist before transitioning to conducting. She completed her undergraduate degree in orchestra conducting at the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín before being accepted to the prestigious Master’s program in orchestral conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, where she studied under Johannes Schlaefli and graduated with honors in 2021. During that time, Ana attended master classes with Herbert Blomstedt, Matthias Pintscher, Thomas Adès, and Olaris Elt and was invited by Bernard Haitink to the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Since 2015, Ana has been involved with the Iberacademy Orchestra in Medellín, where she has been assisting its cofounder and conductor Roberto González-Monjas in multiple projects, including conducting the orchestra as a guest conductor.
A finalist of the 2020 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, Ana is also the recipient of the 2021 National Prize for best conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá and a winner of the Conducting Fellowship at Dirigentenforum des Deutschen Musikrates Germany in 2019.