May concerts in Finland and Portugal
In May 2026, Pietari Inkinen returns to Finland for concerts with the Tampere Filharmonia and Oulu Sinfonia, before travelling to Lisbon to conduct the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the Centro Cultural de Belém.
On 8 May, Inkinen conducts the Tampere Filharmonia at Tampere Hall in a programme entitled “Spell of the Ring”. The concert features violinist Ava Bahari in Chausson’s “Poème” for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25 and Ravel’s “Tzigane”, followed by Lorin Maazel’s orchestral synthesis of Wagner’s “Ring”, “The Ring Without Words”.
On 13 May, Inkinen returns to Oulu Sinfonia after several years for a concert with violinist Sueye Park, winner of the 2025 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. Park performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47. This will be followed by Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”.
Inkinen then returns to Lisbon on 24 May to conduct the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the Centro Cultural de Belém. The programme opens with Wagner’s intimate “Siegfried Idyll”, followed by Sibelius’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” Suite and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
Further information about the concerts is available here:
8 May – Tampere Filharmonia
13 May – Oulu Sinfonia
24 May – Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
[Photo: Kaupo Kikkas]
“Scenes from the Ring” in Copenhagen
On September 17 and 18, Pietari Inkinen returns to the DR Symphony Orchestra at Copenhagen’s DR Koncerthuset for two concerts devoted to Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle”.
Pietari Inkinen returns to KBS Symphony Orchestra
On 10 September 2026, Pietari Inkinen returns to the KBS Symphony Orchestra for the orchestra’s 830th Subscription Concert at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. The concert marks another reunion with the orchestra he served as Music Director until 2024.
Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen returns to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in August for two programmes in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton.
Concerts in Tokyo and Nagoya
On 1 August, Pietari Inkinen returns to Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall to make his debut with the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo. The following day, the same programme will be performed in Nagoya as part of the celebrations marking the reopening of Shirakawa Hall.