Guest Conductor

Howard Arman

Howard Arman was born in London and trained at the Trinity College of Music there. He was Artistic Director of the Salzburg Bach Choir from 1983 to 2000 and of the MDR Leipzig Radio Choir from 1998 to 2013. He first performed at the Vienna Musikverein in 1991 and at the Salzburg Festival in 1995. In addition to his international work as a choral conductor, he has conducted productions at opera houses in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. From 2011 to 2016, he was Music Director of the Lucerne Theatre, where he conducted works such as »Dido and Aeneas«, »Le nozze di Figaro«, »Albert Herring«, »Norma« and »Il viaggio a Reims«. Howard Arman has been Artistic Director of the Bavarian Radio Choir from 2016‒2022. Other engagements have taken him to the Finnish National Opera, the Michigan Opera Theatre and the Cologne Opera, among others. Howard Arman was awarded the Handel Prize in Halle an der Saale in 1996 for the reorganisation of the Handel Festival Orchestra on the occasion of the production of »Orlando«. His discography includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Sergei Rachmaninov.