On May 16 and 18, in Saarbrücken and Mannheim, respectively, Pietari Inkinen bids farewell to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, where he has served as Chief Conductor since 2018. These concerts, marking the culmination of a fruitful seven-year collaboration and aptly titled Hyvästi Pietari! (Farewell, Pietari!), feature works by composers the Finnish maestro has championed throughout his career. The program includes Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in D Major and six lieder from Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, performed in collaboration with acclaimed Mahler specialist, contralto Gerhild Romberger.

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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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