Maria Seletskaja trained as a dancer and had a successful career with Estonian National Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Zurich Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders, before moving to music and conducting.
She has worked with Stuttgart Ballet (Assistant Conductor), The National Ballet of Canada (Conductor-in-Residence), San Francisco Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Staatsballett Berlin.
She has conducted English National Ballet Philharmonic in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake in-the-round (Tchaikovsky); Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith’s Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky); Mary Skeaping’s Giselle (Adam); Akram Khan’s Giselle (Lamagna); David Dawson’s Four Last Songs (Strauss); Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky); Martha Graham’s Errand into the Maze (Menotti) and more.
