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Music Director
Pietari Inkinen
Pietari Inkinen is fast establishing himself as one of the most exciting talents of the new generation of conductors. With invitations to Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bayerische Rundfunk, WDR Cologne, Maggio Musicale, Orchestre National de Belgique, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic, amongst others, Inkinen is already making his mark on the international concert scene.
Inkinen has already worked with a number of important orchestras including the Frankfurt, Netherlands, Vienna, Swedish and Finnish Radio Symphonies, the Bamberg, Malmo, Iceland and Tivoli Symphonies, NDR Hannover, the Rotterdam, Oslo and Helsinki Philharmonics, RAI Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G Verdi, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lille, National Arts Center Orchestra Ottawa, the Toronto, BBC Scottish, Bournemouth, Melbourne, West Australia and Tasmania Symphony Orchestras, The Queeensland Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and KBS Symphony, and has enjoyed successful collaborations with soloists such as Vadim Repin, Hilary Hahn and Pinchas Zukerman.
This season Inkinen returns for the third time to Finnish National Opera to conduct a production of Eugene Onegin and recently made a very successful debut at La Monnaie in Brussels conducting The Rite of Spring.
Inkinen’s recent recording with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic on the Oehms Classics label has received outstanding reviews and was voted the BBC Music Magazine’s recording of the month. He recently recorded two discs of Sibelius and Rautavaara with the NZSO for Naxos and also a chamber opera by Lotta Vennäkoski with the Avanti Chamber Orchestra. This season he will make another two discs for NAXOS with the Bournemouth Symphony and NZSO.
Inkinen is also an accomplished violinist and studied at the Cologne Music Academy with Zakhar Bron. He has appeared as soloist with many of the leading Finnish Orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic with whom he performed the Sibelius Concerto in a concert that celebrated the 100th anniversary of their performance of the work, and has played/directed orchestras including Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Norrkopings Symphony and Orchestre National de Lyon.
He also enjoys chamber music collaborations and following their success at St John’s Smith Square, the Inkinen Trio has been invited to make their Wigmore Hall debut in September 2007.
Inkinen plays a Carlo Bergonzi violin (c1732) owned by the Gyllenberg Foundation
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Pietari Inkinen photo 1 (2.1MB) photo credit Robert Catto www.catto.co.nz
Pietari Inkinen photo 2 (2.4MB) photo credit Robert Catto www.catto.co.nz
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Pietari Inkinen with Orchestra (5.1MB) photo credit Robert Catto www.catto.co.nz
Pietari Inkinen with Orchestra 2 (5.6MB) photo credit Robert Catto www.catto.co.nz
Pietari Inkinen with in rehearsal (1.9MB) photo credit Mable Wong
