Mika Eichenholz studied conducting under Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and made his début with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 1989. The same year he won first prize at the Swedish competition for conductors. He has frequently been engaged as guest conductor in orchestras in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Israel, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and South Africa, as well as in South America. He has formed a steady relationship with the Kazan State Opera with which he has toured in Europe with singers from the Bolshoy and Mariinsky Theatre. In 2006 Mika Eichenholz made his début with the Hamburger Symphoniker and was subsequently re-invited for three following productions. During the season 2007–08 he appeared in South America, Scandinavia, Austria, Germany, Russia and Holland, and in 2008/09 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Stockholm Strauss Orchestra, Hamburger Symphoniker, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Kazan Opera, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, and the Santiago Symphony Orchestra.