Enyi Okpara is the newly appointed Fellow Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2026/27 Season. He is currently the Calleva Assistant Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, after winning the BSO’s Calleva Conducting Competition in 2024, the Artistic Director and Founder of Elysium Music, and was recently listed on Classic FM’s Rising Stars List for 2025, as one of “30 incredible musicians under 30”.

As Calleva Assistant Conductor, Enyi has conducted the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in various performances across the country, including six weeks in the BSO’s main season series and his Royal Albert Hall debut for Classic FM Live at 25. Across the 2025/26 season, he debuts with Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Britten Sinfonia, London Symphony Orchestra, Multi-Story Orchestra and the National Children’s Orchestra. He also makes return appearances to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Swan and London Schools Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights also include projects with Chineke! Orchestra involving collaborations with George the Poet and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Enyi has performed with some of the world’s leading soloists including Esther Abrami, Alim Beisembayev, Julian Bliss, Danny Driver, Milly Forrest, Clare Hammond, Martin James Bartlett, Thomas Luke, Fergus McCreadie, Johannes Moser, Joe Stilgoe and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Enyi also held a position as Conductor-In-Residence with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra in 2023/24. In 2022, he was a finalist at the inaugural Weston Conductors Competition, during which he conducted the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. He was also awarded the Young Conducting Scholarship with the national choral charity Sing for Pleasure in 2021.

Hugely passionate about music outreach, accessibility, and education, Enyi is the Artistic Director and Founder of Elysium Music. Founded in September 2021, Elysium is a charity dedicated to collaborative projects between young professional musicians and children. It bridges the gap between music in schools and conservatoire music making by providing side-by-side projects, workshops and resources to provide school musicians with a real flavour of life as a professional musician.

Growing up in Camden, North London, Enyi’s musical journey started initially as a percussionist and saxophonist and member of the Camden Music Hub. Enyi studied conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music, where he held the Derek Butler Award. He graduated in 2024 with Distinction, was awarded a DipRAM prize for outstanding final recital, won the Conducting Prize for highest final recital mark, and won HRH Princess Alice, The Duchess of Gloucester Prize for exemplary studentship and performance at graduation. Enyi recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s This Classical Life presented by Jess Gillam, and the podcast Things People Do, hosted by Joe Marler and Tom Fordyce.