Giugno 21, 2025
RICHARD-STRAUSS-FEST | PIETARI INKINEN | LUDWIGSBURGER SCHLOSSFESTSPIELE
Richard-Strauss-Fest: On June 21, 2025, at the Forum am Schlosspark Ludwigsburg, Pietari Inkinen conducts the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in a concert entirely devoted to Richard Strauss, that opens with Don Juan op. 20, continues with “Orchesterlieder Cäcilie” op. 27/2, “Traum durch die Dämmerung” op. 29/1, “Des Dichters Abendgang” op. 47/2, “Ruhe meine Seele« op. 27/1 and “Verführung” op. 33/1, Vier sinfonische Zwischenspiele aus “Intermezzo” and concludes with “Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche”. The concert is part of the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, one of Germany’s oldest and most prestigious festivals for classical music and the performing arts, where Pietari Inkinen previously served as chief conductor. The program features renowned tenor Matthew Swensen.
The event
The Richard-Strauss-Fest will be recorded by SWR and broadcast live online via SWR Kultur. It will also air on Tuesday, October 7 at 1:05 p.m.
[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.
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