Susanna Mälkki has been nominated for a 2017 International Opera Award in the “Conductor” category. Winners will be announced at a special ceremony hosted at London’s Coliseum on May 7; the event is co-presented by the International Opera Awards and BBC Radio[…]
This summer, Susanna Mälkki hosts Masterclasses as part of Musiikin aika (Time of Music) in Viitasaari, Finland. Participants begin the classes on July 2 and continue through the week, with public concerts on July 8 & 9. Conductors invited to participate will work with[…]
Susanna Mälkki begins the new year leading two concert series with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. On January 11 & 12, the “Once Upon a Time” themed programme features electric guitarists Seth Josel and Wiek Heijmans on Murail’s Contes cruels for[…]
“In addition, Thursday’s performance was the Met debut of the brilliant Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki, who becomes, amazingly, only the fourth woman to take the podium in the company’s history … This production is lucky to have the impressive Ms. Malkki[…]
This winter, Susanna Mälkki makes her greatly anticipated debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, conducting a month-long performance run of Kaija Saariaho’s “transfixing” (The New York Times) opera L’Amour de Loin. The production, new to The Metropolitan[…]