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[…]

Susanna Mälkki has been lauded as the 2017 Conductor of the Year, by Musical America. She will receive the award at a ceremony in New York City on December 8 at the historic Carnegie Hall. Previous honorees include conductors Osmo Vänskä, Marin Alsop, and Gianandrea Noseda,[…]

Susanna Mälkki continues her first season as Music Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra with a concert series titled “Majestic Brahms” at the Helsinki Music Centre. The programme features the Brahms Violin Concerto, with concertmaster Pekka Kauppinen[…]