Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010, and Chair of Orchestral Conducting at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, Arthur Fagen is a regular guest at prestigious opera houses, concert halls and music festivals, and has conducted many distinguished orchestras globally, including the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Colon, Czech Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and more.

He has held positions as Generalmusikdirektor of the Dortmund Philharmonic and Opera, Chief Conductor of the Antwerp Opera and First Conductor of the Kassel and Braunschweig Operas. He won First Prize at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors' Competition and he has recorded extensively for Naxos, BMG and the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Arthur recalls having conducted for Tedd Joselson on at least one of these prestigious performances, and has shared a memorable pie from the glorious past.