Fiona Stevens takes over the management of the Basel Sinfonietta.
Fiona Stevens, most recently Managing Director of the baroque orchestra Concerto Köln, is taking over as Managing Director of the Basel Sinfonietta. She succeeds Daniela Martin in this position.
Fiona Stevens studied musicology at Cambridge University, violin in Düsseldorf and historical performance practice in Frankfurt am Main and The Hague. She completed her doctorate at the University of Southampton in 2017. For two years, she experimented with cultural crossover with an agency that organized concerts in unusual places and circumstances for classical music. From October 2021 to September 2024, she was Managing Director of the baroque orchestra Concerto Köln. She is currently a fellow at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, specializing in sustainability and strategic planning for cultural enterprises.
The Basel Sinfonietta is a symphonic orchestra specializing in contemporary music. It has commissioned numerous works and has presented more than 220 world premieres and national premieres since its foundation.
