Dalia Stasevska is chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the International Sibelius Festival, and principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony. This season, she guest conducts the Orchestre de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Oslo Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Finnish Radio Symphony. In North America, she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, and debuts with the New World Symphony. Recent engagements have included the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Glyndebourne Opera. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in April 2023.

Last summer, she released her debut feature album, Dalia’s Mixtape, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring genre-bending composers such as Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw, Andrea Tarrodi, Noriko Koide, Judith Weir, and Julius Eastman. With the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, she also released two albums on BIS.

Stasevska studied violin and composition at the Tampere Conservatory and went on to study violin, viola, and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. In December 2018, she conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Nobel Prize Ceremony. In 2023, she was named one of The New York Times “Breakout Stars” and received BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year Award. She was previously awarded the Alfred Kordelin Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named her to the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class, and since 2022, she has actively supported Ukraine by raising donations and delivering supplies.