Oksana Lyniv was nominated Music Director of Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2022.

In 2021, she made history as the first female conductor in the history of the Bayreuth Festival, opening the festival with her debut production of The Flying Dutchman. Following the sensational success of this premiere, she was engaged at Bayreuth through 2024.

In February 2024, Lyniv made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as the first Ukrainian conductor ever, leading Puccini’s Turandot to tremendous success.

Her notable achievements include performances at the Bavarian State Opera, the State Opera Berlin, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, Oper Frankfurt, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Theater an der Wien, and the Stuttgart State Opera.

Oksana Lyniv is also deeply committed to nurturing young musical talent and is the founder and chief conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (YsOU).

Renowned for her exceptional combination of precision and artistic temperament, Lyniv is a prominent figure on the international stage, ranking among the leading conductors of her generation.

The 2024-2025 season holds impressive highlights for Lyniv, including her long-anticipated return to the Opéra National de Paris for The Magic Flute, a return engagement with the Barenboim-Said Academy and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, and a symphonic debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Mozart Week. She will also revive the celebrated Rusalka production at the Stuttgart State Opera, make her debut with Tosca at the Oslo Opera House, lead a concert production of Siegfried at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and give concert debuts with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and the Copenhagen Phil in Denmark. Additionally, she will conduct Puccinis Madam Butterfly at the Tokyo Spring Festival and debut with a new production of Eugene Onegin at the Semperoper Dresden.

In September 2024, Lyniv returned to the Bavarian State Opera with Tosca, and in October, she led a concert production of Die Walküre in Bologna as the second chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Her international concert activity flourishes: As a guest conductor, she collaborates with numerous world-leading orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Korean National Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Graz Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

From 2017 to 2020, she served as chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic.

Parallel to her steep career, Oksana Lyniv is passionately committed to the promotion of classical music on an international level and in Ukraine. Thus, she plays a significant role as one of the outstanding personalities in the cultural landscape of her homeland.

She has been awarded several international titles and prizes, including the Festival Prize of the Bavarian State Opera in 2015 and the prestigious TREBBIA International Award in the category “For Artistic Activities” (Czech Republic) in 2019. In November 2020, Oksana Lyniv received the Opera! Award for Best Conductor of the Year 2020. In 2021, she was honored with the Ukrainian Order of Princess Olga, and in 2022, she became the laureate of the European Helena Vaz da Silva Award for raising public awareness about cultural heritage. In 2023, she received the special Opera! Award for “Outstanding Engagement”. In 2024 she was honored with the Bavarian Constitutional Medal, the highest state award in Bavaria, Germany, for “for her extraordinary artistic work, especially as the first female conductor of the Bayreuth Festival, and for her passionate commitment to promoting classical music and supporting young talents in this area.”

In 2016, Oksana Lyniv co-founded the International Festival of Classical Music LvivMozArt in Lviv, Ukraine. Additionally, she initiated comprehensive international research on the personality of Franz Xaver Mozart in collaboration with the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg.

Also in 2016, on her initiative, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (YsOU) was established, the first and only nationwide youth orchestra in Ukraine. The Berlin Philharmonic’s patronage of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, along with the longstanding collaboration with the Bundesjugendorchester, confirms the orchestra’s outstanding reputation. 

In 2022, after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Oksana Lyniv became a co-initiator of the cooperation project “Music for the Future“, an evacuation music camp for young Ukrainian musicians in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

In times of the Russian war against Ukraine, Oksana Lyniv emerges as a dedicated cultural ambassador of her country. She passionately advocates for the performance of Ukrainian composers on international stages.