News | 22.11.2024

Concerts with Japan Philharmonic and Mayuko Kamio

Pietari Inkinen returns to lead the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra with two concerts on November 23 and 24 at the Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. On the program is Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto, starring soloist Mayuko Kamio, and Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie.

Pietari Inkinen’s long collaboration with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra dates back to 2009. He led the orchestra first as a guest conductor, followed by a position as Principal Guest Conductor, and as Chief Conductor between 2016 and 2023.

Pietari Inkinen and Mayuko Kamio were students of Zakhar Bron in Cologne. In 2017, they participated in a concert on the occasion of the esteemed violinist and teacher’s 70th birthday, Ms. Kamio as a violin soloist and Maestro Inkinen as a conductor.

 

News | 29.11.2024

“The Gift of Fire” with the KBS and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Seoul

On November 29, Pietari Inkinen is back in Seoul to lead the KBS Symphony Orchestra in the one-off concert The Gift of Fire at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall. The program features Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and The Rite of Spring, as well as Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, starring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.