Nurhan Arman returns to Sinfonia Toronto after a four-concert tour in Italy last summer with Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali. His upcoming engagements include Kammerorchester Arpeggione (Austria), San Remo Philharmonic (Italy), Orquesta Sinfonica Do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brazil), Orquesta de Cámara del Congreso de la Nación of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a ten-concert tour in China. In 2017-18 Maestro Arman continued with Sinfonia Toronto in Canada and led the orchestra’s South American tour in April of 2018. Maestro Arman has brought capacity crowds to their feet on three continents.

He has appeared in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Turkey, Armenia, South Korea, Mexico, and throughout the United States and Canada. Nurhan Arman is currently the Music Director of Canada’s Sinfonia Toronto. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic have been unanimous in their praise. Pravda hailed Maestro Arman as a “fascinating and striking musical personality,” while the Broadcast Review in Prague reported “a spirited and nobly rounded performance.”

Born to Armenian parents in Istanbul, he played his first violin recital at the age of 13. After arriving in the United States on a Disney Foundation scholarship, he concertized from coast to coast, appearing in major US cities as well as at prestigious music festivals in Tanglewood, Spoleto, New York, and Florida. After several seasons of leading US orchestras as a concertmaster, he began a conducting career that has taken him all over the world.

In 1982 Nurhan Arman moved to Canada to accept the post of Music Director of the North Bay
Symphony and the Northern Music Festival. In 1987 he was named Music Director of Symphony New Brunswick which he swiftly built into a major regional resource. In March of 1993, Maestro Arman was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Yerevan Symphony in Armenia. In 1998 Maestro Arman founded Sinfonia Toronto, now considered one of Canada’s finest chamber orchestras. Maestro Arman has served as an adjudicator on many prominent panels, including the International Fitelberg Conducting Competition in Poland, the Canada Council Conducting Competition, and the Heinz Unger Competition.

He has taught conducting at the Brockport Festival in New York, the Florida Festival, and in Canada at his own Northern Music Festival as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music. Maestro Arman’s illustrious career has taken him around the globe, where he has guest-conducted a multitude of prestigious orchestras including the Moscow Philharmonic, State Hermitage Orchestra St. Petersburg, Volgograd Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Filarmonica Italiana, Orchestra Pomeriggi Musicali, Florence Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera Milano Classica, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Sinfonica Giacchino Rossini, Orchestra Sinfonico di Lecce, Chamber Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra Leopoldinum, Witold Lutoslawsky Chamber Philharmonic, Kharkov Philharmonic, Vojvodina Symphony, Sergipe Philharmonic of Brazil, Nordbohmische Philharmonie Teplice, Deutsches Kammerorchester Frankfurt, Radomska Orkiestra Kameralna, Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra of Mexico City, Orchestra Extremadura in Spain, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Hungarian Philharmonic, Lithuanian Philharmonic, l’Orchestre Regional d’Ile de France, Bohemian Festival Orchestra, Pilsen Radio Symphony, Silesian State Philharmonic, Denver Chamber Orchestra, Armenian Philharmonic, Bucharest Philharmonic, Brasov Philharmonic, Filarmonica Moldova, Filarmonica Sibiu, Slovak Philharmonic in Kosice, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, Orquestra da Câmara Amazonas of Brazil, Deutsches Kammerorchester on tour at the Ljubljana Summer Music Festival, Karlsbad Symphony, Rivne Chamber Orchestra, Grand Orchestre de l’Harmonie in Belgium, Pusan Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, Saskatoon Symphony, and many others.