Concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

News | 02.08.2024

On August 2 and 3, Pietari Inkinen returns to Australia to conduct two concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the iconic Sydney Opera House, with a compelling program including the world premiere of Liza Lim’s “Salutations to the Shells”, Sergey Prokofiev’s “Sinfonia Concertante”, where he joins forces with virtuoso cellist Alban Gerhardt, and Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

Pietari Inkinen’s collaboration with Alban Gerhardt dates back more than twenty years, when the German cellist happened to be the soloist at Inkinen’s international breakthrough: While still a conducting student at the Sibelius Academy, young Pietari jumped in to save a concert with the Helsinki Philharmonic.

The Finnish conductor is a renowned name in Australia. In addition to numerous concerts, he conducted “Der Ring des Nibelungen” for Opera Australia in 2013 and 2016 to rave reviews and such high acclaim that he won two awards: Australia’s Helpmann Awards in 2014 for Best Music Direction and a Green Room Award for Best Opera Conductor in 2016.

[Photo by Benjamin Ealovega]

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.

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.

News | 06.11.2024

Concerts with DRP and Anna Vinnitskaya

Pietari Inkinen will conduct the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and pianist Anna Vinnitskaya on three dates in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe, including two live radio broadcasts. On the program of the concerts at the Congresshalle Saarbrücken and the Konzerthaus Karlsruhe on November 8 & 9 is Reger’s “Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Beethoven”, Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, and Elgar’s “Enigma Variations”. The same program, except for the "Enigma Variations", will be performed at the SWR Studio Kaiserslautern on November 7.

News | 16.10.2024

Bruckner’s 5th Symphony in Salzburg

Pietari Inkinen and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie are back at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, this time to perform Bruckner's Symphony No. 5. The guest performance on October 17 is part of a series of three concerts at the Festspielhaus featuring Bruckner's 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies, played by different orchestras on the occasion of the composer's 200th anniversary.

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