Maestro move: Finn takes German orchestra
mainThe rising Finn Pietari Inkinen is to be chief conductor of the merged Deutsche Radio Philharmonie of Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern.
The orchestra, formerly led by Karel Mark Chichon, regularly performs in France, Luxembourg and Belgium as well as across a swathe of Germany.
Inkinen, 36, is also chief conductor of the Japan Philharmonic and Prague Symphony.
Like most Finn musicians, he started playing piano at age four.
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