Armand Birk

Canadian conductor Armand Singh Birk is currently a fellow with the Orchestre Métropolitain Conducting Academy mentored by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. His primary teachers have been Jonathan Girard and Petar Dundjerski, and in addition, he has had the privilege of learning from Andris Nelsons, Stefan Asbury, Dima Slobodeniouk, Xian Zhang, Dame Jane Glover, James Ross, James Lowe, and Daniel Raiskin. Recent and upcoming engagements include working with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Mendelssohn-Orchester Akademie, the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra, l’Orchestre Métropolitain, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The Little Opera Company, and the River City Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 2019.