April 03, 2025
DEUTSCHE RADIO PHILHARMONIE | PIETARI INKINEN | SAARBRÜCKEN, LUDWISBURG, KAISERSLAUTERN
Pietari Inkinen conducts the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in three concerts on April 3, 4, and 11 at the StudioKonzert Saarsbrücken, Gastkonzert Ludwigsburg, and Sinfoniekonzert Kaiserslautern, respectively. The program, entitled “Wo Waldgeister weben” (Where forest spirits weave), includes Jean Sibelius’s mysterious and at times eery symphonic poem “Tapiola”, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky’s last work, the menacing and dark Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”, and Sergey Rachmaninov’s powerfully virtuoso Piano Concerto No. 4, performed by soloist Alexei Volodin.
[Photo: Andreas Zihler]
More information about Pietari Inkinen:
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. Inkinen is the chief conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the South Korean KBS Symphony Orchestra.
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