On December 4 and 6, 2025, Pietari Inkinen makes his debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall, leading a program that opens with Jean Sibelius’s ever-popular Finlandia, an anthem to liberty and national pride. Gold medal–winning violinist Sergey Khachatryan then steps into the spotlight for the brilliant and notoriously challenging Violin Concerto by fellow Armenian Aram Khachaturian. The evening closes with Sibelius’s passionate Second Symphony, a work long associated with the Finnish struggle for independence from Russia.
Sibelius has been central to Inkinen’s artistic life for years. During his tenure as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, he recorded the complete Sibelius symphonies for Naxos, earning widespread praise for the clarity and integrity of his interpretations.
In the United States, Inkinen has already collaborated with major ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra and is set to make his debut with the Utah Symphony, further expanding his presence on the American orchestral scene.

[Photo: Andreas Zihler]

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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