Swiss conductor Nina Haug is praised by musicians for her deep musicality and inspiring personality. Recent highlights of her career have included concerts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (NOR), the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (ROM), and with Sinfonietta Schaffhausen in Tonhalle Zürich (CH). In autumn 2025 she will make her debut at the Theater Magdeburg (GER) and with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (NOR). She has been collaborating with multiple youth orchestras, as for example the Nutcracker production in 2024 with NOR59 in Oslo, and summer 2025 she will lead concerts with the National Youth Orchestra of Ukraine and the Orchestra Giovane (CH). In 2022 she was leading the Christmas Gala with choir, childrens choir, orchestra and soloists at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo.
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Nina Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite programme Dirigentforum and teaching at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Through Dirigentforum, Nina Haug regularly works with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. She participated in the renowned Conducting Academy of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2024, and the Järvi Academy 2023 in Estonia. In summer 2024, she completed her master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Prof. Ole Kristian Ruud.
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Nina Haug graduated as a pianist from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and has been working as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. She made her début at Tonhalle Zurich in 2022 with Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto and she played Alban Berg’s Kammerkonzert as a soloist at Helsinki Music Centre. Nina Haug regularly enjoys leading from the piano. Her most influential teachers include Matti Raekallio, Tuija Hakkila, Gerold Huber and Silke-Thora Matthies. Nina Haug is currently employed by the Norwegian Academy of Music as a teacher for conducting.
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