Eduardo Strausser’s previous concerts with the North Carolina Symphony, in 2023, featured Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Duett-Concertino and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7.

Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser began his tenure as Principal Conductor and Music Director of Norrlandsoperan in the 2024/25 season. As a guest conductor, he has returned in the 2025/26 season to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and made his debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Pacific Symphony. Working extensively across Australia, he appeared twice in the 2024/25 season with the Sydney and Queensland symphony orchestras and made his debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

A regular collaborator with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Strausser conducted the orchestra and pianist Yeol Eum Son in 2024 for his first appearance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has made recent return visits to the Hallé, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestre de Montpellier, and had a debut engagement with Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa. Recent US engagements have included the symphony orchestras of Detroit and Indianapolis and the symphonies of San Diego, Kansas City, and Utah.

Previously Resident Conductor of Teatro São Paulo from 2014-2016, Strausser has conducted operas in Europe with Zurich Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Theater Magdeburg, Staastheater Hannover, and Teatro Verdi di Padova.

From a young age, Strausser developed an interest in works by contemporary composers. He worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a student took part in the International Forum for Conductors at the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt. He studied orchestral conducting at the Zurich University of Arts. Strausser has worked with soloists including Javier Perianes, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Alexandra Lowe, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Marie-Ange Nguci, Paul Lewis, Augustin Hadelich, Richard Galliano, Cédric Tiberghien, and Steven Osborne, among others. He is now based in Berlin but still returns home to Latin America for guest conducting.