Sakari Oramo

Sakari Oramo is a Finnish conductor who began his career as a violinist: he was concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra before turning to conducting. He was music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2008, chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2003 to 2012 and chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2021. Since 2013 he has been chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with which he appears regularly at the BBC Proms, and he is Artistic Partner of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. With the Stockholm orchestra he recorded the symphonies of Schumann, and his recordings with the BBC orchestra have appeared on the Chandos label.