KarinaCanellakis

Karina’s 2024-25 guest engagements include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Staatskapelle Dresden (in their televised New Year’s Eve concert), along with return visits to the Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and Washington DC’s National Symphony Orchestra.

Karina returns to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris to conduct Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with Les Siècles in the pit.

Her engagements as Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic include Mahler Symphony no. 3, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem and Elgar The Dream of Gerontius.

Her first recording with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for Pentatone of Bartók’s Four Pieces and Concerto for Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016 Karina has become a guest conductor with leading orchestras around the world, including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, LA and San Francisco as well as the Bavarian Radio, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. She recently finished a four-year appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and was Artist-in-Residence at the Musikverein Vienna in the 23-24 season.