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Swedish conductor Mika Eichenholz made his début with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 1989 after studying with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The same year, also the year of his graduation from the Sibelius Academy, he was awarded first prize at the Swedish Competition for Conductors (Svenska Dirigentpriset). In 1990 he was chosen to replace Neeme Järvi at very short notice on a tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, thus beginning a career that has since brought him to orchestras worldwide. Mika Eichenholz is frequently engaged as guest conductor with Swedish and Finnish orchestras, in addition to return engagements with orchestras in Eastern Europe, Austria and South America. He has a steady relationship with the Kazan State Opera, with which he has toured in Europe on a regular basis with singers from the Bolshoy and Mariinsky Theatres. As an opera-conductor he has also been engaged by Folkoperan in Stockholm, Gothenburg Opera and Värmlandsoperan.