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She is a popular guest across the UK, the Nordic countries and Benelux in particular as well as in Australia; concerts in 2026/7 include her debuts with the Melbourne Symphony and returns to the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Scottish National, Swedish Radio Symphony, Malmo Symphony, Sinfonia Lahti, Turku Philharmonic (the first Finnish Independence Day concert in their new hall), Stavanger Symphony and Trondheim Symphony. She conducts a Betsy Jolas celebration at Stockholm Royal Concert Hall with the Norrkoping Symphony, debuts at the Paris Philharmonie with the Orchestre National de l’Ile de France, and further afield will premiere Augusta Holmes’ rediscovered Ode Triomphale on her return to the Sao Paulo Symphony.
In the past couple of seasons she has debuted with the Bamberg Symphony, Belgian National, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Tasmania Symphony and New Zealand Symphony and returned to the Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Lausanne Chamber and Adelaide Symphony. She made her mainstage opera debut in 2025 conducting Opera North in several performances of The Magic Flute.
Hoving regularly conducts works by living (especially Finnish) composers. In 2024 she conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony in the prestigious Nordic Music Days festival and has been closely involved with the Helsinki Philharmonic’s ongoing project to revive works by neglected Finnish composers from the last century.
Hoving’s career began as Assistant to Hannu Lintu at the Finnish Radio Symphony (2019) and to Mikko Franck at Radio France (2020-22). Both posts both led to important jump-ins which catapulted her to the limelight, notably when she took over a concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the Berlin Philharmonie at only a few hours’ notice: “sensationell” (Tagesspiegel, March 2022). She went on to make significant debuts at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (2022), at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (2024) and at London’s Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra (also 2024).
Born in 1994, Hoving studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Professors Sakari Oramo and Atso Almila, having begun conducting studies in 2015 with Jorma Panula. She previously studied piano (from age 6) as well as the clarinet. In 2021 she won the Finnish critics’ prize 2021 for the Best Newcomer in the Arts.
Not to be altered without the permission of Intermusica. 2026/27 season, 406 words.