Swiss conductor Nina Haug is praised by musicians for her profound musicality and inspiring personality. During the 2026/27 season, she will serve as a conducting fellow of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg. During the 2025/26 season, she debuted with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. She won second prize in the Siemens Hallé International Conducting Competition. Recent highlights include concerts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (Romania) and the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen (Switzerland) at the Tonhalle Zurich. She has also collaborated with several youth orchestras, including leading NOR59 in their ballet production of The Nutcracker and working with the National Youth Orchestra of Ukraine and Orchestra Giovane in Switzerland.
Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite programme Dirigentforum. Through this programme, she regularly works with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in renowned academies such as the Conducting Academy at the 2024 Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Järvi Academy in Estonia in 2023. She is also a member of the Taki Alsop Mentoring Programme for 2026. Having completed a Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2024, she is now employed as a conducting teacher.
Prior to her conducting career, Nina Haug obtained her master's degree in piano performance from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and has been working as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. She made her solo debut at Tonhalle Zurich in 2022, performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, and played Alban Berg’s Kammerkonzert at the Helsinki Music Centre. She regularly enjoys leading from the piano and has played in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra as an orchestral pianist.
