Tabita Berglund is one of today’s most exciting, talented and in-demand young conductorswho has gained a reputation for her alert, charismatic and inspiring style, which elicits“exceptional music-making” (The Arts Desk). This season, Berglund begins her four-yeartenure as Principal Guest Conductor of Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and from the 2025–26 season, she holds the same title with Dresdner Philharmonie; she was appointed toeach position following her respective debut.

Symphonic highlights of the 2024–25 season include debuts with the Houston Symphony,Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre dechambre de Paris, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iceland SymphonyOrchestra, and Lahti Symphony Orchestra, as well as Berglund’s inaugural weeks as DetroitSymphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor—the first featuring the US premiere ofAnna Clyne’s violin concerto Time and Tides with fellow HarrisonParrott artist PekkaKuusisto. Other notable season highlights include Berglund’s Asian debut with TokyoMetropolitan Symphony Orchestra, her Salzburg Easter Festival debut togetherwith Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, a European tour with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,and returns to Dresdner Philharmonie, Royal Stockholm PhilharmonicOrchestra, Orchestre national de Lyon, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, andTrondheim Symphony Orchestra. In December 2024, she conducts The NorwegianNational Ballet in 12 performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Berglund regularly collaborates with internationally renowned soloists; recent andupcoming partnerships include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Leila Josefowicz, Truls Mørk, CédricTiberghien, Nicolas Altstaedt, Håkan Hardenberger, Alexander Malofeev, the Jussenbrothers, and Camilla Tilling, to name a few. In 2024–25, she continues to champion themusic of Nordic compatriots such as Thorvaldsdottir, Saariaho, Sibelius, Svendsen, andIrgens Jensen, as part of a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Dvořák,Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Lutosławski, and Britten, among many others.

Recent engagements include appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, DetroitSymphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio SymphonyOrchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre national deLyon, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, City of BirminghamSymphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Düsseldorfer Symphoniker,among many others. Festival appearances include Festival Internacional de Músicay Danza de Granada and Grafenegg. Additionally, Berglund made her Garsington Operadebut in summer 2024, conducting a revival production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Sheconcluded her three-year tenure as Principal Guest Conductor of Kristiansand SymphonyOrchestra at the end of the 2023–24 season. In August 2024, she chaired the jury for thegrand finale of the Eurovision Young Musicians competition, broadcast live on televisionthroughout Europe via the major networks.

Berglund studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, first as a cellist with Truls Mørk andlater orchestral conducting with Ole Kristian Ruud. She played regularly with the Oslo andBergen Philharmonic orchestras, as well as the Trondheim Soloists, before conductingbecame her main focus. Her debut album, with Oslo Philharmonic and violinist SonokoMiriam Welde, was released in 2021 (LAWO) and nominated for a Norwegian Grammy(Spellemann) in the 2022 Classical Music category.

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Violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto is renowned for his artistic freedom and fresh approach to repertoire. Kuusisto is the Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the Principal Guest Conductor & Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from the 2023–2024 season. He is also an Artistic Partner with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, a Collaborative Partner of the San Francisco Symphony, and an Artistic Best Friend of Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. 

In the 2022–2023 season, Kuusisto debuted with Berliner Philharmoniker and performed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He returned to orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco and Cincinnati symphony orchestras, the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Kuusisto makes his debuts as a conductor with the Philharmonia and Gothenburg symphony orchestras. He is also Sinfonieorchester Basel’s Artist-in-Residence with whom he appears as a conductor, soloist, and recitalist. 

As a conductor, recent highlights include appearances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber and European Union youth orchestras, the Concertgebouworkest, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 

In the 2021–2022 season Kuusisto performed the world premiere of Bryce Dessner’s Violin Concerto with the HR Sinfonieorchester, and later with the Philharmonia, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Orchestre de Paris. He performed the world premiere of Thomas Adès’s Märchentänze for violin and orchestra with the Finnish Radio Symphony orchestra and later with the Barcelona, Gothenburg, and Danish Radio symphony orchestras. He was also the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Featured Artist. In recent seasons, Kuusisto premiered new works by Sauli Zinovjev, Daníel Bjarnason, Anders Hillborg, Philip Venables, and Andrea Tarrodi. 

Kuusisto is an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music and a gifted improviser and regularly engages with people across the artistic spectrum. Uninhibited by conventional genre boundaries and noted for his innovative programming, recent projects have included collaborations with Hauschka and Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder, pioneer of electronic music Brian Crabtree, eminent jazz-trumpeter Arve Henriksen, juggler Jay Gilligan, accordionist Dermot Dunne, and folk artist Sam Amidon. 

In 2022, Kuusisto released his first album as conductor, partnering with Vilde Frang and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen presenting the Stravinsky and Beethoven Concerti for Warner, and as a soloist performing the world premiere recording of Adès’s Märchentänze for violin and orchestra with Nicholas Collon and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra for Ondine. With Pentatone, Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra presented the album First Light in 2021 featuring the world premiere recording of Nico Muhly’s violin concerto, Shrink. Other recent releases include Adès’s Violin Concerto Concentric Paths recorded with Aurora and Nicolas Collon for Deutsche Grammophon, Hillborg’s Bach Materia, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard for BIS, and Daniel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto with Iceland Symphony Orchestra with the composer conducting for Sono Luminus. 

Kuusisto plays the Antonio Stradivari Golden Period c.1709 ‘Scotta’ violin, generously loaned by a patron through Tarisio.