Howard Arman, born in 1954 in London, is an English choral conductor and opera
director. He studied at the Trinity College of Music in London before moving to
Austria and Germany in 1981. Early in his career, he worked with leading British
ensembles and conducted radio choirs such as the Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the
RIAS Kammerchor. From 1983 to 2000, Arman led the Salzburger Bach-Chor. From
1998 until 2013, he has been the director and artistic leader of the MDR
Rundfunkchor. He won the Handel Prize of the Handel Festival in Halle in 1996
for his work shaping the festival's or...