Emilia Hoving

In 2025/26, Hoving makes her debut with the Bamberg Symphony and with the Hallé Orchestra, and returns to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Malmo Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.  In recent months she was invited back to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Adelaide Symphony, and Norwegian Radio, and debuted with the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Belgian National, Nagoya Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Sao Paolo Symphony, with immediate reinvitations almost everywhere.  In 2025 she also made her mainstage opera debut, conducting Opera North in several performances of The Magic Flute.

Hoving regularly conducts works by living (especially Finnish) composers.  In October 2024 she conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony in the prestigious Nordic Music Days festival and is 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. Correct as of 18 August 2025, 341 words.