After months of speculation about who will take over as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the dust has finally settled. On July 4, the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Association announced the appointment of Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokosk

After months of speculation about who will take over as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the dust has finally settled.

Pedogowsky

This emergent "post-2000" conductor is also the ninth music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Shum Ming-yan, the board of directors of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Association and chairman of the music director selection committee, expressed a warm welcome to Pedagosky, "He is an outstanding and visionary musician. He will write a new chapter for the orchestra, which makes us very happy." It's an honor. The board of directors is extremely excited that the orchestra will be led by this outstanding conductor in the future."

Pedgorski said that he was honored to be appointed as the music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "The performance with the orchestra last year left a great impression on me. I am deeply impressed and know that this will be a long-lasting relationship. The HK Phil is definitely one of the top orchestras in Asia. I very much look forward to creating more inspiring music with the outstanding HK Phil musicians in the future.”

HK. Ho Pinda, CEO of the orchestra and member of the music director selection committee, said that Pedgorski’s appointment as the orchestra’s new music director marks an important milestone. “He is an extremely talented young musician. Under his leadership, We hope to inspire a new generation of music lovers while continuing to enhance the HK Phil’s reputation for artistic excellence in Hong Kong and beyond. The HK Phil is excited about the creative musical journey ahead.”

Pedogowsky. Born in 2000, he began studying with Finnish conductor Panula at the age of fourteen and studied with Oram at the Sibelius Academy.

In January 2022, Pedagoski was appointed as the principal guest conductor of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, becoming the first conductor to hold this position in the orchestra's 42-year history. In May 2022, Pedagoski was appointed as the music and artistic director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. In August 2022, at the age of 22, he completed the first performance of Wagner's "Ring" tetralogy in his music career at the Oura River Bel Canto Music Festival. In the 2024/25 season, he will serve as the music director-elect of the Toulouse Municipal House Orchestra, and will become the orchestra's music director from the 2025/26 season.

In June 2023, at the finale concert of the HK Phil’s 2022/23 season, Pedagoski set foot on the HK Phil stage for the first time, conducting Sibelius’s “Ode to Finland” and Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” , Shostakovich's "Tenth Symphony".

On July 5th and 6th, 2024, he will conduct the Hong Kong Philharmonic's 2023/24 "Season Finale: Pedgorski and Zhao Chengzhen" concert, and the tickets have been sold out. On September 5th and 6th, 2024, he will also conduct the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s 2024/25 “Season Opening: Pedagosky and Rosa Gaudit” concert. Both programs were held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall.

"A beauty that is unnerving, breathtaking, and moves you to tears. Just writing these words gives me goosebumps. How he did it remains a mystery. But Rotterdam produced some of the most beautiful music of the year Yes. Pedagoski, please remember this name,” Rotterdam Handelsblatt once said of this young conductor.

It is worth mentioning that the chief guest conductor of the HK Phil is Yu Long, and the resident conductor is Liao Guomin.