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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

of Poulenc’s La voix humaine and Weill’s Songs with subsequently violin, viola and conducting at the
Karita Mattila, and to Norske Opera to conduct Sibelius Academy. As a conductor, her teachers
Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermoor. Other include Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam. In
productions include Don Giovanni with Kungliga December 2018, she had the honor of conducting
Operan Stockholm directed by Ole Anders Tandberg, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at
Cunning Little Vixen with Finnish National Opera the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm. She was
and Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor
2018 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, featuring Award in 2020, Alfred Kordelin Prize in 2022 and
Anne Sofie von Otter. BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year award
Her debut solo album Dalia’s Mixtape with BBC in 2023.
Symphony Orchestra, released in Spring 2024 on Stasevska was bestowed the Order of Princess Olga
Platoon, features 10 tracks of some of the freshest of the III degree by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
sounds in contemporary music. Released one month at in October 2020 for her significant personal
a time, the project includes music by genre-bending contribution to the development of international
composers such as Anna Meredith, Caroline Shaw, cooperation, strengthening the prestige of Ukraine
Andrea Tarrodi, Noriko Koide, Judith Weir and internationally and popularization of its historical
others. In June 2023 together with Lahti Symphony and cultural heritage. Since February 2022, she
Orchestra and pianist Olli Mustonen, she released has actively been supporting Ukraine by raising
piano concerti by Rautavaara and Martinů on BIS. donations to buy supplies and, on a number of
Stasevska originally studied as a violinist and occasions, delivering them herself.
composer at the Tampere Conservatoire and www.daliastasevska.com

Photo: Cody Downard

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their exceptional talents with our community. One of the
Festival Festival’s largest expenses is housing. Please consider donating
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from one week to eight weeks. You’ll give the musicians you
Orchestra care about a home away from home.

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