About

Argentine-Italian conductor Santiago Jolly serves as Music Director of the Collegium Cantorum de Strasbourg and Founder and Artistic Director of the Camerata Cronenbourg.

An advocate for contemporary music, he was chosen by Marin Alsop as a Conducting Fellow at the 2022 National Orchestral Institute + Festival, where he led the world premiere of el is to by Elliot Roman. His work has been recognized with the Teresa Grüneisen Scholarship and the Cultural Patronage Scholarship from the Mozarteum Argentino. At age 23, he was selected for the conducting masterclass of the Teatro Colón’s Instituto Superior de Arte. His performance led Maestro Enrique Diemecke, the theater’s General Artistic Director, to offer him a year of mentorship.

From 2021 to 2023, he served as Co-Music Director of the Penn State Campus Orchestra and as Assistant Conductor of the Penns’ Woods Music Festival and the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra. Recent highlights include guest conducting the Ortenau Orchester (Germany) in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with soloist Anna Plotkina, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 35; leading performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Dvořák’s Mass in D major with the Collegium Cantorum de Strasbourg; and covering for Ariane Matiakh with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. After assisting on Bizet’s Carmen with the Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg in 2024, he will make his opera debut as conductor of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with the Camerata Cronenbourg in 2027.

Beyond the podium, he performs as a timpanist with orchestras in Alsace and is also a painter and writer. His work reflects his interest in spirituality, the meaning of art, and the complex dance of human relationships. His first collection of short stories, La caja de Marguerite, was published in Argentina by Editorial Dunken.

Jolly holds degrees from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and the Pennsylvania State University, and completed a specialization in conducting at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He has developed under the guidance of Gerardo Edelstein, Ariane Matiakh, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, David Reiland, Alain Altinoglu, Miguel Etchegoncelay, Carlos Vieu, Emmanuel Siffert and Theodor Guschlbauer.

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