On November 27, 2025, Pietari Inkinen conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in a program mostly centered on the sound world of Jean Sibelius. The concert opens with Pohjola’s Daughter, op. 49, and The Swan of Tuonela, two tone poems inspired by Nordic mythological tales, rich in atmosphere and evocative orchestral colors. The folksy spirit also pervades Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which will be performed by soloist Piotr Anderszewski. The second part is entirely devoted to Sibelius and his visionary single-movement Symphony No. 7.
Pietari Inkinen is a prominent figure in Japan’s musical landscape, thanks to his past tenure as Chief Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Photo: Kaupo Kikkas]

More information about Pietari Inkinen:

https://pietariinkinen.com/

https://www.drp-orchester.de/drp/orchester/chefdirigent104.html

About the Conductor:

At the age of four, Pietari Inkinen received his first musical lessons. As a teenager, the Finnish conductor, born in 1980, began studying the violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he also attended Jorma Panula’s conducting class. Further studies took him to Zakhar Bron at the Cologne University of Music and back to Helsinki to Leif Segerstam. From 2008 to 2016, he was the chief conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and in 2014 and 2015, he spent five years each as chief conductor of the Ludwigsburg Festival and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. A special place in the conductor’s career is held by the music of Richard Wagner: in 2014, he conducted Der Ring des Nibelungen for the first time at Opera Australia in Melbourne, and in 2021, he conducted Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival. There, he conducted the complete Tetralogy in 2023. Pietari Inkinen is in demand worldwide at opera houses from Helsinki to Brussels, Dresden, and Berlin, and has also worked with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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