Dalia Stasevska

Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska studied violin and composition at the Tampere Conservatory and violin, viola and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Her conducting teachers included Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam. In December 2018 she conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Ceremony.

"The BBC SO is a very inspiring, energetic orchestra with a huge range of colours in its sound, and I am looking forward to working together over the next few years, exploring a wide range of music.”

Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, she made her BBC Proms debut in 2019 and conducted the Last Night of the Proms last year. This autumn she becomes Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Last year she won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award.

Highlights of the current season include debuts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre National de France and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and returns to the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony and Stavanger Symphony orchestras. Other recent engagements include performances with the Oslo Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony and Detroit Symphony orchestras and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

She returned last season to the Norwegian Opera to conduct Madam Butterfly, having made her debut in 2018 with Lucia di Lammermoor. She has conducted Don Giovanni with the Royal Swedish Opera, Eugene Onegin with Opéra de Toulon, The Cunning Little Vixen with Finnish National Opera and Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, starring Anne Sofie von Otter.