On October 17, 2025, Pietari Inkinen returns to his native Finland, appearing at Helsinki’s Music Centre for a concert entitled Greetings from Bayreuth, an evening dedicated entirely to Richard Wagner. The program focuses on the final two chapters of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, with the participation of renowned Wagner interpreters and Bayreuth veterans, soprano Catherine Foster and tenor Andreas Schager.
The first Finnish conductor ever to lead Wagner’s complete Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival, Inkinen has made the composer a cornerstone of his artistic journey. His earlier Ring cycle in Melbourne was also met with widespread acclaim.

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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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