Born in Vienna, Christian Arming trained under Leopold Hager and Seiji Ozawa. In 1995, at the age of 24, he became the youngest conductor ever appointed to lead the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, a position he held until 2002.

From 2003 to 2013, he served as the music director of the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, succeeding Seiji Ozawa, as well as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. From 2011 to 2019, he was the music director of the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he made numerous recordings.

He is regularly invited and re-invited by numerous orchestras across Europe (Deutsches Sinfonieorchester, Hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Staatskapelle Weimar, Mozarteum Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, RAI Turin, Staatskapelle Dresden…) and around the world (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Malaysia Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra…).

Since 1997, he has conducted many operas, including *The Turn of the Screw* in Cincinnati, *Der Rosenkavalier* in Trieste, *La Bohème* in Lucerne, *Salome* and *Elektra* in Verona, *Prince Igor* in Strasbourg, *Der fliegende Holländer*, *Don Giovanni*, *Jenufa*, *Les Contes d’Hoffmann*, and *Der Zwerg* in Frankfurt.

In Tokyo, he has also conducted *Pelléas et Mélisande*, *Fidelio*, *Les Mamelles de Tirésias*, *Gianni Schicchi*, *Salome*, *Eine florentinische Tragödie*, *Lohengrin*, and *Die Fledermaus*.

After conducting *Carmen* in 2019, he returned to conduct at the Ozawa Academy in 2020 for a new production of *Die Fledermaus* and was recently appointed principal conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.

Among his upcoming projects are *Ariadne auf Naxos* at the Opéra National de Montpellier.

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