Eva Ollikainen

Eva Ollikainen, born on February 12, 1982 in Espoo, Finland, is a conductor. Ollikainen earned her master's degree in conducting from the Sibelius Academy studying under Prof. and Prof. . She also holds a master's degree in piano performance from the same academy. Having won the international conducting competition in 2003, she was invited to the conductors' academy of the Allianz cultural foundation, where she had the opportunity to work with and , as well as the and . In 2006, Ollikainen was a conducting fellow at Tanglewood Music Center to great public and critical acclaim. Ollikainen was awarded the Paulo Foundation Hulda Paulo prize for accomplished young musicians in 2009 in her native Finland.

Since then she has developed a comprehensive repertoire from to contemporary music and regularly works with leading orchestras such as the , , , , , , and the .