Daniel Raiskin
permanent guest conductor
„Daniel Raiskin is clearly a musician of sensi-bility, well versed in his craft." (Gramophone)
Daniel Raiskin is one of the most respected and versatile conductors of his generation. He possesses a distinctive artistic voice and, through his thoughtfully conceived programs, has built a broad repertoire that reaches well beyond the mainstream.
From 2020 to 2025, he served as Chief Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, where he now holds the position of Permanent Guest Conductor. Since August 2018, he has also been Music Director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and since the 2017/2018 season he serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic. His previous posts include Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, and Chief Conductor of the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź.
The appointment of Daniel Raiskin as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava was announced in May 2024, and since then he has worked closely with the orchestra as Designated Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. He officially assumes the position from the 2026/27 season.
His regular guest appearances include the Athens State Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre National de Lyon, Residentie Orkest, Sinfonia Varsovia, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Daniel Raiskin is also relentlessly committed to sharing his knowledge and passion with young musicians around the world. He devotes his time regularly to working with young conductors and with youth orchestras in a.o. Canada, Estonia, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Poland and South Africa.
Among the major soloists with whom he has appeared are Emanuel Ax, Rudolf Buchbinder, Xavier de Maistre, Renée Fleming, Nelson Freire, Martin Fröst, Alban Gerhardt, Vadim Gluzman, Natalia Gutman, Daniel Hope, Kari Kriikku, Simone Lamsma, Lang Lang, Francois Leleux, Jan Lisiecki, Alexei Lubimov, Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Müller-Schott, Olli Mustonen, Julian Rachlin, Benjamin Schmid, Julian Steckel, Anna Vinnitskaya, Lukáš Vondráček and Alexei Volodin.
Daniel Raiskin has an extensive CD recordings catalogue and currently works on two major cycles: Shostakovich Symphonies with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra and entire orchestral music by Franz Schmidt with the Slovak Philharmonic.
Daniel Raiskin grew up and studied in St Petersburg but left Russia more than 35 years ago. He continued his studies in Amsterdam and Freiburg. Before turning to conducting, he was a highly regarded violist, performing worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. He has lived in the Netherlands and Germany and now resides near Amsterdam, close to forests, dunes and the sea. Together with his Ukrainian wife, he has two adult children who are currently studying at universities of New York and Amsterdam. In addition to music, he enjoys books, cooking, good wine and ice hockey.
Ondrej Olos
permanent guest conductor
studied at the Conservatory in Žilina (M. Seidl) and at the Janáček Music Academy in Brno (E. Skoták). In 2006 he received the Leoš Janáček Award for his musical production of the chamber version of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen at the Chamber Opera of the Janáček Music Academy. As part of the festival “Janáček Brno 2008“, he prepared and conducted the original 1904 version of Janáček’s Jenůfa.
He works at the National Theatre Brno and Slovak National Theatre Bratislava, where he has conducted Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Verdi’s Macbeth, Il Vespri Siciliani, Don Carlos, Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen, Katya Kabanova, Jenůfa, The Makropulos Case, Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro, Turandot, Tosca, Nedbal’s Polenblut, Rossini’s La scala di seta, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, R. Strauss’s Salome, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Così Fan Tutte, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, Donizetti’s Elisir D’amore, Maria di Rohan, Dvořák’s Rusalka, Saint-Saëns Samson and Dalilah.
He has also conducted at other opera houses, for example in the Greek National Op-era in Athens (The Cunning Little Vixen, The Macropulos Case, Don Giovanni, La Bohème), Den Jyske Opera Aarhus (Katya Kabanova), Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Limoges and Opéra de Reims (Jenůfa), National Theatre Prague (Rusalka, Mozart Birthday, Galaconcert on the 100th Anniversary of the Formation of Czechoslovakia), State Opera Praque, Slovak National Theatre Bratislava, DJKT Plzeň (Cavalleria rusticana), National Theatre Košice (Dia-logues of the Carmelites, Samson and Dalilah) and F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec.
Ondrej Olos regularly collaborates with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina, Prague Chamber Philharmonic and Philharmonic Orchestras in Brno, Olomouc, Zlín and Hradec Králové. He is also a successful and sought-after pianist and chamber player.
In the upcoming season, his programme includes a production of Die Fledermaus by Strauss in the National Theatre Brno, guest performances in F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec (Othello), as well as concerts with the Brno Philharmonic and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc.