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ADRIEN LA MARCA 53 Christian Arming, conductor Christian Arming was Music Director of the Liège Royal Philharmonic / Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (OPRL) from 2011 to 2019. Born in Vienna in 1971, he grew up in Hamburg. After studying with Leopold Hager, he worked closely with Seiji Ozawa (1992-1998), and then became Music Director of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava (1995-2002), the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (2001-2004) and the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo (2003-2013). Since 2017 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. Christian Arming recalls being fortunate enough to have the opportunity to hear, in his home town, week after week, orchestras with a typicallyViennese sound and with a worldwide reputation in the great Germanic repertory (Richard Strauss, Bruckner, Mahler, etc.), while also discovering what Nikolaus Harnoncourt was bringing to the development of historical performance practice. In Liège, he highlighted the Austro-German repertory, taking advantage of the tradition the OPRL has developed in the field of contemporary music, shared his knowledge of Slav – and in particular Czech – music, and expanded the French repertory that is so dear to the orchestra. Christian Arming has conducted more than fifty orchestras all over the world, in Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Strasbourg, Munich, Rome, Geneva, Boston, Cincinnati, Houston, and elsewhere. He is in great demand for opera and has conducted in Salzburg, Cincinnati, Trieste, Lucerne, Verona, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Tokyo and other centres. InadozenyearsorsohehasrecordedworksbyBrahms,Beethoven,Mahler,Janáček and Schmidt (for the most part with the New Japan Philharmonic), Escaich with the Orchestre National de Lyon, and, with the OPRL, Franck’s Symphony, Saint- Saëns (3CD), Gouvy, Wagner , Jongen, Sirba Octet!, Bloch Elgar and Contemporary Clarinet Concertos.