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 2026 Siemens Hallé International Conducting Competition in Manchester. Other recent highlights include concerts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (Romania) and the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen (Switzerland) at Tonhalle Zürich.
Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite programme Dirigentforum. Through this programme, she regularly works with major symphony orchestras including 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 and the Järvi Academy in Estonia in 2023. She is also a member of the Taki Alsop Mentoring Programme.
Prior to her conducting career, Nina Haug obtained her master's degree in piano performance from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and has worked as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist. She made her solo debut at Tonhalle Zürich 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 with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra as an orchestral pianist.
