Ana María Patiño-Osorio is the winner of the Second Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Youth Jury Prize at the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen in 2024. She is also the first Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, selected from nearly 300 candidates, working directly with Jonathan Nott in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. Since this appointment, she has been gathering praise as a remarkable conductor, expressing wisdom, finesse, and deep respect for music. In January 2023, Ana María Patiño-Osorio successfully stepped in at short notice to conduct the OSR featuring violinist Daniel Lozakovich and pianist Mikhail Pletnev as soloists.
Her recent most notable guest engagements includ conducting the Iberacademy Orchestra at Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, Philharmonic of Bogota, the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay (SODRE), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín, and Orchestra Sinfonía por el Peru, with which she will be touring Europe in September 2024. Featuring the acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flórez, the tour includes concerts at the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Wiener Konzerthaus, Victoria Hall in Geneva, and Paris Philharmonie. Further engagements in 2024-25 season include a return for a subscription week with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and debuts with the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Geneva Camerata, Symphony Orchestra “George Enescu” Philharmonic in Bucharest, Symphony Orchestra of Croatian RTV, and Sofia Philharmonic.
Ana María Patiño-Osorio 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. During that time, she attended several masterclasses with Herbert Bloomsted, Matthias Pintscher, Thomas Adès and Olaris Elt, and was invited by Bernard Haitink to the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland. Since 2015, Ana María Patiño-Osorio 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, including conducting the orchestra as a guest conductor.
A finalist of the Solti International Conducting Competition with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in 2020, she 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.
