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Arthur Fagen (born February 24, 1951) is an American conductor and educator. He is the current Music Director of The Atlanta Opera, and Professor and Chair of Orchestral Conducting at The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Training/Early Years
Fagen was born and raised in New York, where he began his training with conductor Laszlo Halasz. He continued his schooling at Wesleyan University, then at The Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Max Rudolf. Fagen also studied in Austria at the Mozarteum Salzburg under Milan Horvat, and then with Hans Swarowsky at Carinthischer Sommer. After finishing his studies, Fagen worked as an assistant to Christoph von Dohnányi at the Frankfurt Opera.

Career
Fagen has an operatic repertory of over 95 works. He has served as Principal Conductor at houses in Kassel and Brunswick, as Chief Conductor of the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, as Music Director of Opernhaus Dortmund, and as a member of the conducting staff at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Metropolitan Opera. He has conducted at the following houses, among others:
 * Vienna State Opera as a regular guest from 1998-2002.
 * Berlin State Opera
 * Deutsche Oper Berlin
 * Teatro Massimo
 * Hamburg State Opera
 * The Bavarian State Opera
 * New York City Opera
 * Israeli Opera
 * Teatro Real Madrid
 * Teatro Colón
 * Teatro Regio (Turin)
 * Teatro Bellini Catania
 * Opera de Toulouse
 * Opera de Nice
 * Staatsoper Stuttgart
 * Baltimore Opera Company

As a concert conductor, Fagen served as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 2005, and of the Dortmund Philharmonic from 2002-2007. He has worked with orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Czech Philharmonic, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

Fagen frequently records for Naxos Records. Some of his most reputable recordings include the complete Symphonies and Piano Concerti of Bohuslav Martinů, the latter being labeled as an Editor's Choice in Gramophone Magazine's March 2010 issue. Additionally, he has recorded various works by Liszt, Rossini, MacDowell, Morton Gould, Ippolitov-Ivanov, David Diamond, and William Dawson Levi. Fagen has also recorded for BMG, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.

Fagen holds 1st prize from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition, and 3rd prize from the Gino Marinuzzi International Conductors' Competition.

Fagen has been Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010. He joined the faculty at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music as a Professor of Music in Orchestral Conducting in 2008, and became chair of the Orchestral Conducting Department in 2013.

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