Natalia Salinas is currently positioned as a reference of the new generation of orchestra conductors in Argentina.
She leads an active and constantly expanding career, forging a solid reputation across different continents. She
conducted some of the main orchestras in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Chile. She also shows a great
affinity for the lyric repertoire since the beginning of her career, which is why her professional activity also
includes engagements with the main opera houses in Argentina: Teatro Colón and Teatro Argentino de La Plata -
opera house where she worked during 2015 and 2017 as assistant conductor, and where she made her opera
debut in 2016 with W.A.Mozart's Così fan tutte, conducting national and international soloists.
Natalia Salinas stands out for “her great vitality and personal imprint on the podium, achieving high quality
performances". (Salatino, 2019)

Since 2019 she resides in France and begins to expand her activity in Europe, having received invitations to
participate as guest conductor in festivals and theatres in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy
covering symphonic and operatic repertoire and first incursions in ballet.

In 2023 Natalia Salinas receives the award as Consecrated Orchestra Conductor, granted by the National
Classical Awards of Argentina. In 2021 Natalia Salinas was awared by the Music Critics Association of Argentina
for their Breakthrough Artist Award as an Orchestra Conductor and nominated for the Argentinean Premiere of
works by foreing composers Award. In the same year, she was selected as a finalist in the Lanyi International
Conducting Competition 2021.

In 2022 Natalia Salinas was in charge of the musical direction of the major oratorio TURBAE ad Passionem
Gregorianam op.43 by Alberto Ginastera, with more than 200 people on stage, after having been performed for
the only time in Argentina in 1980 in the presence of the composer. Natalia Salinas, for this concert considered by
the press as "historic", had the support of the Editorial Boosey & Hawkes, the Paul Sacher Foundation
(Switzerland) and the composer's daughter Georgina Ginastera. This event had a great repercussion in the
national and Latin American press, for being a novelty, not only for being a work very rarely performed
worldwide, but for the quality of the resulting work with a piece that shows from the first moment a high level of
complexity for the orchestra, the choirs, the soloists and at the same time for the conductor.
During the 2023 season, Natalia Salinas was invited by the Teatro Colón in Argentine, on the one hand, as
assistant conductor to its current music director, on the other hand, as guest conductor to conduct chamber
opera productions, and during October she made her debut in front of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos
Aires.

During 2023, along with engagements with orchestras in Argentina and Chile, she made her debut in Mexico with
the Orquesta del Estado de México and in October she conducted opera in Italy for the first time at the Teatro
delle Muse in Ancona.

In 2022 she made his Swiss debut at the St. Gallen Theatre in the 2021/22 season with the opera María de Buenos
Aires by Astor Piazzolla with whom she also had engagements for his 2022/23 season in a Ballet project. In 2022
she also made his debut with orchestras in Uruguay and Brazil.

During 2021 she made her operatic debut in Europe, in Austria at the Taschenopernfestival (Pocket Opera
Festival) Salzburg 2021, in charge of the world premiere of the opera "Der Kuss" by Wolfgang Mitterer, then in
Germany, in the same year, she made her debut in front of the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra and worked
for the first time in front of the Muskifabrik Ensemble.

She is currently pursuing a Franco-German PhD in Orchestral Conducting at the Université de Strasbourg, the
Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg dedicated to the work of the
Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera. She completed a master's degree in conducting specialized in 20th and
21st century music at the Université de Strasbourg and the HEAR in France. In 2020 she was awarded by the
National University of Mexico with a full scholarship for the first Diploma in Latin American Composers. She is
also licentiate degree in Orchestra Conducting from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and trained as a pianist
at the Conservatorio Provincial de Música de Santa Cruz, Argentine.

"Natalia Salinas delivered an outstanding performance, surpassing even her triumphant presentation at the memorable opening of the Contemporary Music Concert Series at the Complex Teatral de Buenos Aires in 2019. She worked down to the smallest detail, achieved precision in her interventions, guided with absolute accuracy, and excelled in the impressive finale. We are in the presence of one of the most important conductors that our country has produced in recent times, she has risen to every challenge and demonstrated that she is destined for great things."
A. Ginastera, Turbae. Argentine National Symphony Orchestra
Centro Cultural Kirchner
Donato Decina, deparaisoparaud, 2022

"The guarantee of that is undoubtedly the strong Argentine artistic presence. With Natalia Salinas [...] , for the second time in the current opera season of St. Gallen, there is a powerful young woman on the podium of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra who, as an Argentine, knows how to play the tango in an exciting, precise, transparent, and yet mysteriously subtle way."
A. Piazzolla, Opera Maria de Buenos Aires.
Konzert und Theater St. Gallen, 2022
Martin Preisser, Tagblatt

"Natalia Salinas, a maestra with a growing international career but also a frequent visitor to her home country, was called to the podium. She conducted with precision and skill a program featuring central composers in the repertoire, yet not at all clichéd. (…) Secondly, they performed Schubert's Fourth Symphony (…) It is not an easy symphony to tackle due to its ensemble and interpretive challenges; however, without reaching the lightness of touch that period instruments allow, Salinas and the philharmonic orchestra achieved a convincing interpretation."
Daniel Varacalli, sobrevivientenlaciudad, 2023

"La dirección de Natalia Salinas desempeña un rol esencial al fortalecer las cualidades musicales de Weill en El que dice sí. La composición presenta características convencionales pero con una vitalidad marcada.”
K. Weill, Der Jasager, Teatro Colón 2023
Vigina Chacon, El Clarin

"Natalia Salinas does a great job of conducting and offers a clear and crisp interpretation of the opera, maximizing the blending of Bizet's melodies, which, even though heard countless times, are almost rediscovered due to the chamber-like structure of the orchestra (a reduced Rossini Symphony with just fifteen musicians but truly graceful on this evening). For instance, the 'Chanson bohème' is intense in its expression but without breathless haste, and the Entr'acte from the third act of Carmen, which I hesitate to describe as anything less than sublime."
M. Constant, La Tragedie de Carmen, Ancona, Italy 2023
Domenico Ciccone, Operaclick