Eva Ollikainen

Eva Ollikainen, born on February 12, 1982 in Espoo, Finland, is a conductor. Ollikainen earned her master's degree in conducting from the [url=https://www.uniarts.fi/en/sibelius-academy]Sibelius Academy[/url] studying under Prof. Leif Segerstam and Prof. Jorma Panula. She also holds a master's degree in piano performance from the same academy. Having won the international Jorma Panula conducting competition in 2003, she was invited to the conductors' academy of the [url=https://kulturstiftung.allianz.de/en_EN.html]Allianz cultural foundation[/url], where she had the opportunity to work with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Kurt Masur, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi. In 2006, Ollikainen was a conducting fellow at [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/517422-Berkshire-Music-Center]Tanglewood Music Center[/url] to great public and critical acclaim. Ollikainen was awarded the [url=https://www.paulo.fi/in-english]Paulo Foundation[/url] Hulda Paulo prize for accomplished young musicians in 2009 in her native Finland.

Since then she has developed a comprehensive repertoire from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to contemporary music and regularly works with leading orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, [a858756], Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Københavns Filharmoniske Orkester, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Brussels Philharmonic.