Peter Oundjian is a dynamic presence in the conducting world with an international career leading preeminent orchestras in many of the world’s major musical centers, from New York and Seattle to Amsterdam and Berlin. He is Music Director of both the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) and Colorado Symphony. At CMF, he continues to program and conduct.concerts each summer that delight audiences with beloved masterpieces alongside music written by living composers.
Elsewhere in 2025-26, Oundjian leads the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (where he is Conductor Emeritus), Seattle Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and Sarasota Orchestra, and makes international visits to the KBS Symphony Orchestra (Seoul, South Korea) and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Yerevan, Armenia).
Over the course of his 14-year tenure as Music Director of the
Orquesta Sinfónica de Toronto, which concluded in 2018, he reinvigorated the orchestra with acclaimed innovative programming, artistic collaborations, extensive audience growth, national and international tours and several outstanding recordings, including Vaughan Williams’s Orchestral Works, which garnered a Grammy nomination and a Juno Award. Under his leadership, the Symphony underwent a transformation that significantly strengthened its presence in the world. He currently serves as Conductor Emeritus of the Symphony.
From 2012-18, Oundjian served as Music Director of the
Orquesta Nacional Real de Escocia, which he led on several international tours, including North America, China, and a European festival tour with performances at the Bregenz Festival and Dresden Festival, as well as in Innsbruck, Bergamo, Ljubljana, and elsewhere. His final appearance as the orchestra’s Music Director was at the 2018 BBC Proms where he conducted Britten’s epic War Requiem.
Oundjian served as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the
Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit de 2005 a 2008 y director artístico del Festival Internacional de Música de Caramoor en Nueva York de 1997 a 2007. También fue director musical de la
Amsterdam Sinfonietta from 1998-2002. Throughout his conducting career, Oundjian has appeared as guest conductor with the country’s leading orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and San Francisco Symphonies, among others.
Oundjian has been a visiting professor at
Escuela de Música de la Universidad de Yale desde 1981, y ha recibido doctorados honorarios del Conservatorio de Música de San Francisco y del Real Conservatorio de Música de Toronto.
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