Sibelius / Wagner / Dvořák: Pietari Inkinen returns to his native Finland, and more specifically to Kuopio, to conduct the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra on February 5, 2026. The program centers on Finland’s most celebrated composer, Jean Sibelius, with performances of Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 7. Also on the program are two composers frequently conducted by Inkinen: Richard Wagner with the Overture to Tannhäuser, and Antonín Dvořák with the Overture Othello.
Inkinen has a long-standing and close relationship with Sibelius’s music, having frequently conducted and recorded the composer’s complete symphonic cycle, as well as other works.

[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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