Pietari Inkinen

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Pietari Inkinen (born April 29, 1980 in Kouvola , Finland ) is a Finnish violinist , bandmaster and conductor .

Life

Pietari Inkinen studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and violin with Zakhar Bron at the Cologne University of Music . He graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 2003 in violin and in 2005 in conducting .

After performing with many international orchestras, he was artistic director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2016 . In addition, he became guest conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009 . From 2014/15 to 2019 Pietari Inkinen was chief conductor of the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival . In his first season he performed with the festival orchestra, among others, highly acclaimed interpretations of Jean Sibelius ' Kullervo , Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps and Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony . Since 2015 he has been chief conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra , and since 2016 chief conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern appointed him chief conductor from 2017. In summer 2020 Inkinen should have conducted the new production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival ; however, the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Inkinen plays a violin made by Carlo Bergonzi in 1732.

With the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Inkinen has recorded works by Einojuhani Rautavaara and the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms for Naxos . By 2012, six CDs with works by Jean Sibelius have been released, including all numbered symphonies.

He was invited to lead the Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival in 2020 . The young director Valentin Schwarz was to direct the film . Due to COVID-19 , production had to be postponed, presumably to the year 2022.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tiina Aho: Nimitykset tapahtuvat omalla painollaan. Kouvolan Sanomat, November 21, 2010, page 15.
  2. ↑ a b c d Pietari Inkinen on: IMG Artists (English)
  3. ↑ Conductors of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra ( Memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on its website (English)
  4. ^ Bettina Nowakowski: Brilliant conclusion. In: Bietigheimer Zeitung of July 27, 2015. Retrieved on August 6, 2015.
  5. ^ Pietari Inkinen new chief conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra
  6. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: Pietari Inkinen becomes the new chief conductor. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Pietari Inkinen conducts the next ring in Bayreuth. In: SWR . July 24, 2019 .;
  8. ↑ Jan Brachmann: Because of the corona pandemic: Bayreuth Festival has been canceled. In: www.faz.net. March 31, 2020, accessed March 31, 2020 .
  9. ↑ discography
  10. ↑ BR-Klassik : Katharina Wagner long-term ill , April 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Inkinen, Pietari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish violinist, conductor and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Kouvola , Finland