Guest Artist Bio
Pietari Inkinen
Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen is one of the most exciting talents of the new generation of conductors. With invitations to the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bayerische Rundfunk, WDR Cologne, Maggio Musicale, Israel Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Japan Philharmonic amongst others, Inkinen is making his mark on the international concert scene.
Inkinen has already worked with a number of important orchestras including Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, NDR Hannover, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Malmo Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Tivoli Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, RAI Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lille, National Arts Center Orchestra Ottawa, Toronto Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Melbourne, New Zealand Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and has enjoyed successful collaborations with soloists such as Vadim Repin, Hilary Hahn and Pinchas Zukerman.
Inkinen is invited regularly to the Finnish National Opera and he last season made a very successful debut at La Monnaie in Brussels conducting the Rite of Spring.
Inkinen’s recent recording with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic on the Oehms Classics label has received outstanding reviews and was voted the BBC Music Magazine’s recording of the month. He has recorded two discs of Sibelius and Rautavaara with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for Naxos and also a chamber opera by Lotta Vennäkoski with the Avanti Chamber Orchestra.
Inkinen is also an accomplished violinist and studied at the Cologne Music Academy with Zakhar Bron. He has appeared as soloist with many of the leading Finnish Orchestras including Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic with whom he performed the Sibelius Concerto in a concert that celebrated the 100th anniversary of their performance of the work and has play/directed orchestras including Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, RAI Torino, Norrkopings Symphony and Orchestre National de Lyon. He also enjoys chamber music collaborations and following their success at St. John’s Smith Square, the Inkinen Trio made their Wigmore Hall debut in September 2007. Inkinen plays a Carlo Bergonzi violin (c.1732) owned by the Gyllenberg Foundation.