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Arthur Fagen
ARTHUR FAGEN was born in New York city.He is a respected figure on concert and opera podiums throughout Europe and the United States.

Recent opera productions conducted by Mr. Fagen include Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Ariadne auf Naxos (with the Haydn Orchestra), Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, as well as two Ring Cycles. Additionally in 2006, Mr. Fagen conducted the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Nuernberg Philharmonic and Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

In 2002/2007 Mr. Fagen has been the Music Director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera. Following his successful concerts with the Dortmund Philharmonic at the “Grosse Festspielhaus in Salzburg,” Arthur Fagen and the Dortmund Philharmonic were invited to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, as well as tours in Salzburg, Beijing and Shanghai.

In October 2007 Mr. Fagen conducted a new production of Turandot at the Atlanta Opera, where he opened the season with enormous success and inaugurated the new Opera House, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. Soon after, in February 2008, he conducted in Atlanta the contemporary opera Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd. Same month he has been appointed as Professor of Music in instrumental conducting at the Indiana University in Bloomington.

The 2007/2008 season include engagements with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Holland Sinfonia, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Sicily and Rome’s Symphony Orchestras, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Opera de Nice, concerts in Spain ( Canarias, Navarra) and in Taiwan, among others. A CD for Naxos was released in October 2007, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies with the Staatskapelle Weimar.

A former assistant of both Christoph von Dohnanyi (Frankfurt Opera) and James Levine (Metropolitan Opera), Mr. Fagen has an opera repertory of more than 60 works. Arthur Fagen has served as Principal Conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, as Chief Conductor of the Flanders Opera of Antwerp and Ghent, as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and a member of the conducting staff of the Chicago Lyric Opera. He has conducted the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Munich State Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, New York City Opera, Opera Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New Israeli Opera, Baltimore Opera, Edmonton Opera, Spoleto Festival, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, and many others.

On the concert podium, Mr. Fagen has appeared with internationally known orchestras including the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Spring Festival, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Slovak Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della RAI (Torino, Naples, Milano, Roma), Orchestra San Carlo, Orchestras of Naples, Genoa and Sanremo, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Dutch Radio Orchestra, among many others. Mr. Fagen was born in New York where he began his conducting studies with Laszlo Halasz. He continued his education at the Curtis Institute under the guidance of Max Rudolf. Further studies continued both at the Salzburg Mozarteum and with Hans Swarowsky. Arthur Fagen was first prizewinner of the “Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition” as well as prizewinner of the “Gino Marinuzzi International Conductors’ Competition” in Italy.

Mr. Fagen has recorded for BMG, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB and WDR Cologne. He recorded a number of CDs for Naxos, including the 6 symphonies by Bohuslav Martinu. May 2008 Please disregard previously dated materials.