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 to the International Sibelius Festival, Stasevska is also principal guest conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has made several appearances at the BBC Proms including the First Night of the Proms in 2023.
In the 2023–24 season, Stasevska conducts The Cleveland Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony. Other recent engagements have included the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others.
In spring 2024, Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra collaborate on a Total Immersion project focussing on Missy Mazzoli. Her debut album for Platoon, Dalia’s Mixtape, will feature 10 tracks of some of the freshest sounds in contemporary music and will be released one month at a time starting in March 2024.
A passionate opera conductor, 2023 saw Stasevska’s highly successful debut at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival with Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other productions include Don Giovanni with Kungliga Opera Stockholm, The Cunning Little Vixen with Finnish National Opera, and Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival.
Stasevska attended the Tampere Conservatoire followed by studies at the Sibelius Academy. In December 2018, she conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm. She was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award in 2020, the Alfred Kordelin Prize in 2022, and BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year award in 2023.
Stasevska was bestowed the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in October 2020 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 actively been supporting Ukraine by raising donations to buy supplies and, on a number of occasions, delivering them herself.