Paavo Jarvi (Finnish: [ born 30 December 1962) is an Estonian conductor. Jarvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme Jarvi and Liilia Jarvi. His siblings, Kristjan Jarvi and Maarika Jarvi, are also musicians, He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Max Rudolf and Otto-Werner Mueller, and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute with Leonard Bernstein.

From 1994 to 1997, Jarvi was principal conductor of the Malmo Symphony Orchestra. From 1995 to 1998, he shared the title of principal conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis. Jrvi was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2011. The orchestra made a number of recordings for the Telarc label during Jarvi's tenure. In May 2011, he was named the orchestra's Music Director Laureate. Since 2004, he has been the artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen and an Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, Jarvi became the principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, In 2010, he became music director of the Orchestre de Paris,] In June 2012, the NHK Symphony Orchestra named Jarvi its next chief conductor, beginning in the 2015–2016 season, with an initial contract of three years