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.
The programme opens with Sibelius’s Pohjola’s Daughter, followed by Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Boris Giltburg as soloist. After the interval, Inkinen conducts two further works by Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7.
The concert begins at 8 pm local time and will also be broadcast by KBS. The live radio stream can be accessed online via KBS On Air:
https://onair.kbs.co.kr/m/index.html?sname=onair&ch_type=radioList&stype=live&ch_code=24
[Photo by Sasha Gusov]
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