Peter Oundjian

"There were quantifiable signs of an immediate rapport with his new band-to-be. The most important of these was an all-pervading sense the entire orchestra warms to his musical personality, which is a mix of sensitive precision, solid musicality and outgoing warmth, sprinkled with a calculated measure of good old showmanship" (The Scotsman, April 2011)

"A magnificent performance on Saturday night of Brahms’s Third Symphony in which a near-capacity house heard a Brahms Three from an orchestra with a completely different accent and mindset, a rich, warm and dramatic sound quality, a sense of balance where no section, including the heavy artillery, was constrained, but none overwhelmed another, and an ensemble, superlatively led by James Clark, that appeared to demonstrate a refreshing coherence.....the night, with that cracking Brahms, belonged to Oundjian and his new band." (The Herald, April 2011)

"This was Oundjian's second appearance with the RSNO, and it shouldn't be his last. He offers that rare combination of technical precision and interpretational dynamism." (The Scotsman, March 2010)

"Peter Oundjian ranks among the most compelling of Denver's regular guest conductors. He lit up the second half with a thrilling version of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade." (Denver Post, March 2010)

"Most beautiful of all was how Oundjian balanced the complex demands of this score without ever intruding on Britten's music. His sense of pacing was outstanding, allowing us to breathe briefly in the transitions from sacred to personal." (Toronto Star, November 2009)