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N E W S

May 2023

Debut with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Joonas is making a debut in Helsinki in April 2024 with a program of Ethel Smyth - The Wreckers Overture and Elgars Enigma Variations. 

April 2023

1st prize ex aequo in Cítta de Brescia - Giancarlo Facchinetti conducting competition!

Joonas wins 1st prize ex aequo with Ukranian conductor Nataliia Stets in the competition organised by Dédalo ensemble in Brescia Italy. Prize includes concerts in Italy, Romania and Czech Republic with orchestras like Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra and I Solisti Aquilani.

April 2023

Joonas jumps in for chief conductor Yannis Pouspourikas to conduct Sinfonieorchester Biel Solothurn in Switzerland in their ABO series. The program includes pieces from W.A. Mozart, Christian Jost, L. Bernstein and R. Wagner.

E V E N T S​

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April 07, 2023

Symphony Concert

With Sinfonieorchester Biel Solothurn and Kaspar Zehnder, Flute

Solothurn, Switzerland

M A Y

05

May 05, 2023

Symphony Concert

With Turku Philharmonic and

Matti Koponen, Violin

Turku, Finland

Watch the full concert from TFO LIVE archives HERE

August 2022

Joonas is jumping in to conduct the first performance of Joachim Raffs opera "Die Eifersüchtigen" with Opern-kollektiv Zürich and Orchestra of Europe. The performances will be in September in Arth and Zürich, Switzerland. The production will produce also a world premiere recording of the opera.

JOONAS
PITKÄNEN

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