Ruut Kiiski has a particular interest in bringing overlooked works by women composers back to the concert stage, including music by Germaine Tailleferre, Elfrida Andrée and Ethel Smyth. Her work has also encompassed contemporary opera and oratorio by women composers. In 2017, Ms. Kiiski conducted the premiere of Pauliina Isomäki’s oratorio Vuorisaarna (Sermon on the Mount) with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and led the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Riikka Talvitie’s radio opera Queen of the Cold Land.

Ms. Kiiski graduated from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2015. Prior to her studies in Stockholm, she completed her Master’s studies at the Sibelius Academy, receiving diplomas in choral conducting in 2011 and church music in 2008. She has further developed her conducting through international masterclasses with Valery Gergiev in Turku in 2016 and Herbert Blomstedt in Stockholm in 2015, working on these occasions with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.