Nina Haug

Switzerland

Swiss conductor Nina Haug is praised by musicians for her profound musicality and inspiring personality. In the season 25/26 she will lead symphonic concerts with the Magdeburg Philharmonie (GER), Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (NOR) and Tapiola Sinfonietta (FIN). Recent highlights of her career include concerts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (NOR), the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (ROM), and the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen in Tonhalle Zürich (CH). She has collaborated with multiple youth orchestras, such as NOR59 for their 2024 Nutcracker production, and most recently with the National Youth Orchestra of Ukraine and the Orchestra Giovane in Switzerland. In winter 2022, she led the Christmas Gala with choir, childrens choir, soloists and orchestra at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo.

Nina Haug is currently based in Oslo, where she is a member of the Norwegian elite program 'Dirigentforum'. Through Dirigentforum, she regularly works with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. She participated in the renowned Conducting Academy of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2024, and the Järvi Academy 2023 in Estonia. After completing her master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2024, she is now employed as a teacher for conducting.

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.