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 Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bayerische Rundfunk, WDR Cologne, Maggio Musicale, Israel Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, and Japan Philharmonic amongst others Inkinen is making his mark on the international concert scene. He has already worked with a number of important orchestras, including the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, NDR Hannover, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Malmö 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, West Australia, Tasmania and Queensland Orchestras, New Zealand Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and KBS Symphony. He 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 in 2006 made a very successful début at La Monnaie in Brussels conducting The Rite of Spring. His recording with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic has received outstanding reviews and was voted the BBC Music Magazine’s recording of the month, and his recordings for Naxos include works by Sibelius and Rautavaara with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and also a chamber opera by Lotta Vennäkoski with the Avanti Chamber Orchestra. Other recordings for Naxos have been with the Bournemouth Symphony 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 the Finnish Radio Symphony, and the Helsinki Philharmonic, with which he performed the Sibelius Concerto in a concert that celebrated the centenary of their performance of the work and has played with and directed orchestras including the Genoa Teatro Carlo Felice, RAI Turin, Norrköping Symphony and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He also enjoys chamber music collaborations, and after its success at St John’s Smith Square the Inkinen Trio was invited to appear at the Wigmore Hall in September 2007. Inkinen plays a Carlo Bergonzi violin (c.1732) owned by the Gyllenberg Foundation.
