Alevtina Ioffe is one of her generation’s most versatile conductors, currently serving as Principal Conductor of the Bernese Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar.
In 2009, she earned third prize at the esteemed Victor de Sabata Conducting Competition in Trieste. Her career has since included guest engagements at renowned opera houses in Oldenburg, Trieste, Tbilisi, Volgograd, Catania, and beyond. In 2018, she made a striking debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Swan Lake.
Ioffe studied choral conducting, classical singing, and piano. She was music director of Moscow State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audiences ‘Natalia Sats’, and then served as music director of St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre, becoming the first woman to lead a major Russian musical institution. She now resides in Berlin.
Ioffe regularly conducts at major European venues, including Komische Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Stuttgart (where she debuted with Hänsel und Gretel), and Gothenburg Opera (returning with The Flying Dutchman in 2023/24). She has performed internationally, including a debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2024.
In December 2023 she 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.
Following a successful US debut with Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Seattle Opera in 2022, Ioffe made her symphonic debut with the Seattle Symphony in October 2023 and returned in October 2024.
She debuted at Opernhaus Zurich in December 2022 with a new ballet production. In France, she conducted with the Orchestre National de Lille and the Orchestre National de l’Île-de-France, and debuted with the Orchestre National de Lyon in August 2024.
During the season 2024/25 Ioffe had important debuts in the United Kingdom 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.
