With her elegant, expressive body language, natural stage presence and infectious musicality, Eva Ollikainen is one of the leading conductors of our time.
Eva Ollikainen
Conductor
Since 2020, she has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra which celebrates their 75th anniversary this season. Previously, she was Chief Conductor of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra.
The 2024/25 season sees Ollikainen make major debuts including Orchestre National de France, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon. Elsewhere, she makes her Musikverein debut with the Wiener Symphoniker and returns to Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony and Baltimore Symphony, and conducts an August Everding production of
The Magic Flute
at the Staatsoper Berlin.
Curious about contemporary music, Eva Ollikainen has performed a wide range of repertoire with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is well known for championing the music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, with whom Ollikainen has a close artistic partnership.