Dalia Stasevska
Dalia Stasevska’s charismatic and dynamic musicianship has established her as a conductor of exceptional versatility. Chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the International Sibelius Festival, she also serves as principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has made regular appearances at the BBC Proms.
In the 2024–25 season, Stasevska guest conducts the Orchestre de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Dresdner Philharmonie, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. In North America, she returns to The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and debuts with the New World Symphony.
A passionate opera conductor, 2023 saw Stasevska’s highly successful debut at the Glyndebourne Festival with Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other productions include a double bill of Poulenc’s La voix humane and Weill’s Songs with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Madama Butterfly with Norske Opera, and Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the Baltic Sea Festival.
Stasevska’s debut solo album, Dalia’s Mixtape with BBC Symphony Orchestra, released in August 2024 on Platoon and features some of the freshest sounds in contemporary music by Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw, Andrea Tarrodi, Noriko Koide, and others. In a special collaboration with Joshua Bell and the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra, she also recently released a recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto on Pentatone Records.
Stasevska studied violin and composition at the Tampere Conservatoire and violin, viola, and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. In December 2018, she had the honor of conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Ceremony. She was named one of The New York Times’s Breakout Stars and received the BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year award in 2023.
In October 2021, Stasevska was bestowed the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for her significant personal contribution to the development of international cooperation, strengthening the prestige of Ukraine internationally, and popularization of its historical and cultural heritage. Since February 2022, she has been actively supporting Ukraine by raising funds to buy supplies and, on several occasions, delivering them herself.