Nurhan Arman
Music Director @Sinfonia Toronto Nurhan Arman, Music Director
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WORK HISTORY
Music Director @Sinfonia Toronto Nurhan Arman, Music Director
Toronto, ON, CA
Freelance symphonic conductor
EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts
Music
Tanglewood Festival
Certificate, Music Performance, General
SKILLS
ABOUT NURHAN ARMAN
Currently the Music Director of Sinfonia Toronto Maestro Arman has brought capacity crowds to their feet on three continents. He has appeared in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Lithuania, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Turkey, Armenia, South Korea, Mexico and throughout the US and Canada. Born to Armenian parents in Istanbul, he played his first violin recital at the age of 13. After arriving in the USA on a Disney Foundation scholarship, he concertized from coast to coast, appearing in major US cities as well as at prestigious music festivals in Tanglewood, Spoleto, New York and Florida. After several seasons of leading US orchestras as concertmaster, he began a conducting career that has taken him all over the world.In 1982 Nurhan Arman moved to Canada to accept the post of Music Director of the North Bay Symphony and the Northern Music Festival. In 1987 he was named Music Director of Symphony New Brunswick which he swiftly built into a major regional resource. In March of 1993 Maestro Arman was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Yerevan Symphony in Armenia. In 1998 Maestro Arman founded Sinfonia Toronto, now considered one of Canada\'s finest chamber orchestras. Arman has served as an adjudicator on many prominent panels and has taught conducting at the Orford Arts Centre, Northern Music Festival and the Royal Conservatory of Music.Among many orchestras conducted by Nurhan Arman are the Moscow Philharmonic, Filarmonica Italiana, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra Pomeriggi Musicali, Belgrade Philharmonic, Kharkov Philharmonic, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Florence Chamber Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Hungarian Philharmonic, Lithuanian Philharmonic, l\'Orchestre Regional d\'Ile de France, Silesian State Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic, Bucharest Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic and many others.Specialties:
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