Swiss conductor Nina Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite programme Dirigentforum Talent Norge. Recent highlights of her career have included her debuts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (RO), and with Sinfonietta Schaffhausen in Tonhalle Zürich. She was leading the Christmas Gala 2022 with choir, orchestra and soloists at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo and the final concert of the Festival Pianistico Internazionale del Mediterraneo in Bari, Italy. Through Talent Norge, Nina Haug regularly works with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. She participated in the renowned Conducting Academy of 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.
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. She was employed as a répétiteur by Mannes School of Music in New York City and the University of Applied Sciences Tampere (TAMK) in Finland.
It is Nina Haug’s mission to bring people together to enjoy the energising power of live music.
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