ABOUT ALEJANDRA URRUTIA

Alejandra is a recognized presence on the international podium. She has the ability to go from a powerful and intense Mahler to the refinement and subtlety of Mozart. She is one of those orchestra conductors who understand the power of silence in both music and life and combines a profound and abiding calm with her great love for music.

In 2025, she made her debut in Berlin with the Konzerthaus Orchester and during the 2026/2027 season, she debuts with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra in Mexico, the Bochumer Symphoniker in Germany, the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, and the Calgary Philharmonic in Canada, amongst others. She will also return to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the University of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the University of Concepción Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfonie Orchester Biel-Solothurn in Switzerland.

In 2024, Forbes Chile named her one of Chile’s most creative people and, in the same year, ranked her amongst the 50 most powerful women in Chile. Also in 2024, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s Spanish-language service, through its programme “Fuerza Latina”, produced a short documentary about Alejandra and her vision of how music can transform the world, whilst TVN (Televisión Nacional de Chile) released the documentary “10 Chilean Women Who Are Changing the World”, in which an hour long episode was dedicated to Alejandra, her musical career and her projects.

Alejandra Urrutia was part of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, the mentorship program for female conductors led by Marin Alsop. At the beginning of 2023, she became an “Artista FIA,” in recognition for being the most important Chilean female orchestra conductor, with a career of great international projection.

Alejandra is the recipient of the Mahler Award bestowed in 2020 by the Sociedad Mahler México, which has also been granted to Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink and Gustavo Dudamel, among others.

She is currently Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chilean National Opera). Alejandra Urrutia was Music Director of the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and, previously, Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Provincial de Santa Fe, Argentina, for three years. In addition, she is the Artistic and Music Director of the Portillo International Music Festival and Academy, the Gran Concierto por la Hermandad, and the HUB for Women Conductors and she is one of the founders of Vibra Clásica, an organisation through which she carries out these major projects with a global impact.