Eivind Gullberg Jensen

The 2025/26 season opens with Jensen leading the Noord Nederlands Orkest at the Low-lands Festival, one of Europe’s largest cultural gatherings with audiences exceeding 50,000. He conducted an European cast in Andreas Homoki’s acclaimed production of Carmen at the Macao International Music Festival in October 2025, following successful performances of the production at the Opéra-Comique and Opernhaus Zürich. Additional engagements include concerts with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, as well as return appearances with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, and the Arctic Philhar-monic. Jensen also makes his US debut at the Round Top Festival Institute in Texas, while continuing to lead Bergen National Opera with a forward-looking artistic vision.

Across his career, Jensen has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, in-cluding the Berlin Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Royal Stockholm Philhar-monic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Or-chestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Orchestre Sympho-nique de Québec, and the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. His collaborations with distinguished soloists have been extensive, working with artists such as Gil Shaham, Hilary Hahn, Leif Ove Andsnes, Truls Mørk, Alice Sara Ott, Hélène Grimaud, Javier Perianes, Alban Gerhardt, Gabriela Montero, Emmanuel Pahud, Yefim Bronfman, Renaud Capuçon, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Valeriy Sokolov, and Mari Eriksmoen.

Opera has been a central focus of Jensen’s artistic life. He has led productions at many of Europe’s foremost opera houses and festivals. Highlights include The Rake’s Progress at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Simon McBurney’s celebrated staging; Die tote Stadt and Katya Kabanova with Bergen National Opera; Asle og Alide at the Royal Danish Opera; Tosca and Rusalka at the Vienna State Opera; Tosca at the National Theatre Tokyo; Die Zauberflöte and Der fliegende Holländer at Opéra de Lille; Rusalka at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Oedipus Rex and The Rake’s Progress at the Finnish National Opera; Jenfa at English National Opera; and Il corsaro and Rusalka at Opernhaus Zürich. At Den Norske Opera, he has led Rusalka, Eugene Onegin, and La bohème, further establishing himself as a conductor of sensitivity, drama, and stylistic clarity.
Eivind Gullberg Jensen studied conducting with the legendary Jorma Panula in Stockholm and later with Leopold Hager in Vienna, continuing the lineage of influential Scandinavian and Central European conducting traditions. He has since developed a strong reputation for musical leadership grounded in integrity, imagination, and a deep commitment to artistic
collaboration.