Mārtiņš Ozoliņš is the Chief Conductor of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet and an Associate Professor at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. He is the winner of the prestigious IV International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition. He debuted at the Latvian National Opera in 2003 conducting Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco. Mārtiņš Ozoliņš has led many performances of ballets and operas, gala concerts and choral symphonies, and been the Music Director for most of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet’s new productions and renewals of previous work. The conductor has collaborated with many international orchestras: the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian State Opera Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, among others.