Alevtina Ioffe

Alevtina Ioffe is the new Chief Conductor of the Bern Opera, effective from summer 2025: as one of the most versatile and exciting conductors of her generation she is also the Principal Guest Conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar. In October 2023 she made her symphonic US debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, as the result of the successful US debut conducting Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Seattle Opera in May 2022. She will return to the helm of the Seattle Symphony in October 2024.

Alevtina conducts regularly at the Komische Oper Berlin, at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, where she made her debut with Hänsel und Grätel and at the Gothenburg Opera, where she returns during the season 2023/24 with a new production of The flying Dutchman. Conducting a new production of the ballet On the move, she also made her debut at the Opernhaus Zürich in December 2022.

Alevtina Ioffe is equally successful with her symphonic activities: in France she regularly conducts the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de l’Île-de-France (both at the Cité de la Musique and at the Philharmonie de Paris) and will make her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon in August 2024 leading the orchestra in a concert for the festival La Chaise Dieu. Alevtina Ioffe is a regular presence in Italy, where she has conducted the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (where she will return in June 2024) and the Haydn Orchestra. Conducting music by Stravinsky and Holst, Alevtina will also make her debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in the USA in Summer 2024.

During the season 2024/25 Alevtina will have important debuts in UK with the Ulster Orchestra, (October 2024), followed by her first time at the helm of the London Philharmonic (November 2024), as well as in Germany, where she will conduct for the first time the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover, while in Switzerland – in addition to the return to the Bern Symphony Orchestra – she will make her debut with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

In December 2023 she has conducted an incredibly successful 7-cities European Tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra with concerts in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Budapest, Munich, Innsbruck, Linz and Athens.

Born in Moscow, Alevtina Ioffe studied choral conducting, classical vocal and piano. For a decade, until 2021, Alevtina Ioffe was Music Director of The State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience “Natalia Sats” in Moscow, where she has experienced a significant number of educational projects and developed a vast operatic repertoire; between February 2021 and July 2022 she has been Music Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the first women to lead an important musical institution in Russia. She presently lives in Berlin.