Anna-Maria Helsing has gained an outstanding reputation with leading Scandinavian orchestras and opera houses with her special affinity for the sound and style of modernism and contemporary music.

Anna-Maria Helsing has been appointed as Chief Conductor of BBC Concert Orchestra for three years from 2023/24 further to her highly successful partnership with the orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor from 2020. In 2010–2013, she was Chief Conductor of the Oulu Symphony Orchestra. She currently holds the position of Artistic Director at the high-profile chamber music festival Rusk in Jakobstad, Finland.

The Swedish-Finnish conductor has conducted all the major Scandinavian orchestras including Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Odense, and Iceland Symphony, Royal Stockholm, Helsinki, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Finnish National, Royal Swedish, and Lahti Sinfonia. Furthermore, she was at the rostrum of Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and Musikkollegium Winterthur, among others.

Anna-Maria Helsing gave her operatic debut at the Finnish National Opera with Adriana Mater by Kaija Saariaho and has led a number of world premieres, most recently Lisbeta by Karólina Eiriksdottir at Åland Opera, Svitlana Azarova: Momo and the time thieves at Royal Danish Opera, Magnus-Maria by Karólína Eiríksdóttir on tour in Scandinavia.

Furthermore, she has conducted productions of Mark-Anthony Turnage: Coraline at Folkoperan Stockholm, Leevi Madetoja: The Ostrobothnians, and Madame Butterfly at Tampere Opera, Fredrik Högberg: Stilla min eld at Piteå Chamber Opera,  to name but a few.

Anna-Maria Helsing began her career as a violinist and completed her studies as conductor at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. She has also attended masterclasses with Jorma Panula, Vladimir Jurowski and John Carewe.