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Prof. Howard Arman was born in London in 1954 and studied at Trinity College of Music. After very successful performances with the major ensembles of England he had engagements at festivals in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Edinburgh, Utrecht und Brügge as well as in Jerusalem and in Athens.
Arman has lived in Germany and Austria since 1981. Howard Arman was the main director of the "Festwochen der Alten Musik" in Innsbruck.
Howard Arman has had international performances with choirs such as the NDR-Choir Hamburg, the Südfunk Choir Stuttgart, the MDR-Choir Leipzig and the RIAS-Chamberchoir Berlin. He also conducted the ORF Choir in Austria. With the Salzburger Bachchoir, a very important choir in Austria and abroad founded by Howard Arman in 1983, he made over 100 performances and recordings of choir and orchestra works from baroque up to the music of the 20th century. The Innsbrucker Capellknaben was founded by Howard Arman in 1991. In Italy Arman had many concerts and recordings in cooperation with the composer Hans Werner Henze at Festivals in Rome and Montepulciano. In 1991 Howard Arman had his debut in the Wiener Musikverein. In 1995 Arman conducted the opening cermony of the Salzburg´s Festival. Since his debut in Salzburg Arman has performances at the "Salzburg-Festival" regularly. For example with Handels "Israel in Egypt".
In 1996/1997 Howard Arman conducted concerts with the Essener Philharmoniker, the Mozarteum Orchester, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the Symphony Orchestra of Tyrol and the orchestra of the opera house Halle an der Saale. He conducted concerts in Portugal, Greece, Italy and Japan.
Opera is a very important aspect in the work of Howard Arman as a conductor. He has conducted many productions at several opera houses in Germany, (Komische Oper Berlin, Aalto Theater Essen, Opernhaus Halle/Saale, Potsdam, Bad Kissingen, Dessau, Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt), Austria (Landestheater Salzburg, Tiroler Landestheater) snd Italien (La Fenice Venedig, Merano, Bolzano)
Howard Arman was awarded the Handel Preis of Halle an der Saale in 1996 because of his performances with the orchestra of the opera-house of Halle which plays on historical instruments.
Howard Arman´s CD recordings were published at Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Berlin Classics, Capriccio, Koch International, NCA, Ambitus Hamburg. Howard Arman is professor at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
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