Swiss conductor Nina Haug is praised by musicians for her profound musicality and inspiring personality. During the 2025/26 season, she will conduct concerts with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, and Tapiola Sinfonietta. Recent career highlights include concerts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti and the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen at the Tonhalle Zürich. She has collaborated with several youth orchestras, including NOR59 on their 2024 production of The Nutcracker, and most recently with the National Youth Orchestra of Ukraine and Orchestra Giovane in Switzerland. In winter 2022, she conducted the Christmas Gala featuring a choir, children's choir, soloists, and orchestra 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. 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 participated in the renowned Conducting Academy at the 2024 Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the 2023 Järvi Academy in Estonia. Having completed her Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2024, she is now employed as a conducting teacher.
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In addition 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 debut as a soloist 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.
