# Christian Arming > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christian_Arming > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christian_Arming.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Arming > Source revision: 1255528443 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian conductor (born 1971)}} '''Christian Arming''' (born 18 March 1971, Vienna) is an Austrian [conductor](/source/Conducting). ==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](/source/Vienna_Boys_Choir) as a youth.{{cite news | author=Nicolas Blanmont | title=Christian Arming, de Vienne à Liège | url=https://www.lalibre.be/culture/musique/christian-arming-de-vienne-a-liege-51b8e1c5e4b0de6db9c4b9bd | work=La Libre | date=2011-12-22 | accessdate=2020-06-01}} 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](/source/Seiji_Ozawa) and counts Ozawa as a conducting mentor.{{cite news | author=Chiho Iuchi | title=Vienna's Arming strikes the right note | url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/01/23/music/viennas-arming-strikes-the-right-note/#.XtUeeTlOnIU | work=Japan Times | date=2009-01-23 | accessdate=2020-06-01}} Arming's first orchestral post was as chief conductor of the [Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_Philharmonic_Orchestra), Ostrava, from 1996 to 2002. He was subsequently chief conductor of the [Lucerne Symphony Orchestra](/source/Lucerne_Symphony_Orchestra) from 2002 to 2004. He was music director of the [New Japan Philharmonic](/source/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](/source/Orchestre_Philharmonique_de_Li%C3%A8ge) (OPRL) from 2011 to 2019. Arming and his wife, actress Catherine Le Blanc, have two children. ==Selected discography== * Janáček: ''[Taras Bulba](/source/Taras_Bulba_(rhapsody))'' / Suite from ''From the House of the Dead'' / ''The Ballad of Blanik'' - [Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_Philharmonic_Orchestra) (Arte Nova 74321 67524 2) * Edward McDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 1 - Leonid Kuzmin, Orchestre National de Montpellier (Universal Music 476 9836) * [Wolfgang Rihm](/source/Wolfgang_Rihm): ''Verwandlungen'' - [Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra](/source/Stuttgart_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra); Christian Arming, Matthias Pintscher, conductors (Hänssler Classic 93.263) * 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](/source/Orchestre_Philharmonique_de_Li%C3%A8ge) (Fuga Libera) * ''Heroes'': William Walton, Gwenaël Mario Grisi, Sergei Prokofiev - Adrien La Marca, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (La Dolce Volta) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://kajimotomusicparis.com/artist/IXlaCXyP7E7qLQ6c2eZS Kajimoto Music Paris agency page on Christian Arming] * [https://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/intervenants/christian-arming Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier French-language page on Christian Arming] * [http://www.opmc.mc/christian-arming-chef-dorchestre/ Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo French-language page on Christian Arming] * [https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2017/07/14/221629/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-artist-christian-arming/ Joshua Zinn, 'A Day In The Life Of An Artist: Christian Arming'. Houston Public Media, 14 July 2017] {{s-start}} {{s-culture}} {{succession box | title=[Chief Conductor, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek_Philharmonic_Orchestra) | before=Leoš Svárovský | years=1996–2002 | after=[Petr Vronský](/source/Petr_Vronsk%C3%BD)}} {{succession box | title=[Chief Conductor, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra](/source/Lucerne_Symphony_Orchestra) | before=[Jonathan Nott](/source/Jonathan_Nott) | years=2002–2004 | after=[John Axelrod](/source/John_Axelrod)}} {{succession box | title=[Music Director, New Japan Philharmonic](/source/New_Japan_Philharmonic) | before=Michiyoshi Inoue | years=2003–2013 | after=Toshiyuki Kamioka}} {{s-end}} {{OPL conductors}} {{Authority control}} {{Portal bar|Classical music|Austria}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Arming, Christian}} Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Vienna Category:Austrian male conductors (music) Category:20th-century Austrian conductors (music) Category:20th-century Austrian male musicians Category:21st-century Austrian conductors (music) Category:21st-century Austrian male musicians {{Austria-musician-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Christian Arming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Arming) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Arming?action=history)). 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