Christian Arming (born 18 March 1971, Vienna) is an Austrian
conductor.
Biography
Born in Vienna, Arming and his family later resided in Tokyo until Arming was age two. The family relocated to Hamburg, and then returned to Vienna. He sang with the
Vienna Boys Choir as a youth.[1] Arming studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where his conducting teachers included Leopold Hager. Arming was an assistant conductor to
Seiji Ozawa and counts Ozawa as a conducting mentor.[1][2]
Arming's first orchestral post was as chief conductor of the
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Ostrava, from 1996 to 2002. He was subsequently chief conductor of the
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2004. He was music director of the
New Japan Philharmonic from 2003 to 2013, the third conductor in the history of the orchestra to have the title of music director. He was music director of the
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (OPRL) from 2011 to 2019.
Arming and his wife, actress Catherine Le Blanc, have two children.[2]
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto / Fantasiestücke - Miki Yumihari, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (harmonia mundi Japan)
Contemporary Clarinet Concertos: Magnus Lindberg, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Johan Farjot - Jean-Luc Votano, Arnaud Thorette, Antoine Pierlot, Quatuor Danel,
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (Fuga Libera)
Heroes: William Walton, Gwenaël Mario Grisi, Sergei Prokofiev - Adrien La Marca, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (La Dolce Volta)