Ana María Patiño-Osorio

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. Between 2022– 2024 she has served as Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, working closely with Jonathan Nott. In January 2023, Ana successfully stepped in at short notice to conduct the OSR, 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 23/24 season included conducting the Iberacademy Orchestra at Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay (SODRE), and Orchestra Sinfonía por el Peru. Further engagements in 24/25 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 of Croatian RTV, and Sofia Philharmonic.
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 starting the master’s programme of Orchestral Conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under Johannes Schlaefli in 2021. During that time, Ana attended several masterclasses with Matthias Pintscher, Thomas Adès and Olaris Elt. Since 2015, Ana 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.
A finalist of 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.