Natalie Murray Beale

Conductor

Natalie Murray Beale’s success across the classical spectrum has earned her critical acclaim, awards and industry praise. She has built a distinguished reputation in leading opera houses, on the concert stage, and in the film industry.

Her Royal Opera House debut was lauded as “expertly conducted” by the Financial Times and hailed as “the defining work of art of the Covid period” by The Stage. Further opera engagements include Theater Bonn, Croatian National Theatre, New Zealand Opera, Le Grand Theâtre Luxembourg, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Royal Opera House Mumbai, Opera Holland Park and English National Opera.

Australian born, Natalie has conducted many prestigious orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Malta Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Presidential Orchestra of Turkey, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.

She has directed world and stage premieres by leading composers John Adams, Missy Mazzoli, Anna Meredith, Jessie Montgomery, Joby Talbot and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir.

Natalie trained at the Sydney Conservatorium, The Guildhall (UK), National Opera Studio (UK) and with Maestro Jorma Panula. She has been a BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow London Symphony Chorus Conducting Scholar, an alumna of The Dallas Opera Hart Institute and was mentored by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Natalie gained further conducting experience at Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Wiener Festwochen.

Her conducting for film and games includes the BAFTA-nominated soundtrack  Alien:Isolation. Film credits include Tár (2022), and upcoming releases The History of Sound (2025) and The Choral (2025); working with pre-eminent artists of stage and screen, Cate Blanchett, Josh O’Connor, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Ralph Fiennes. She conducts the London Symphony Orchestra on the Tár concept album, released by Deutsche Grammophon.