Domingo Hindoyan
Thursday, July 2, 2020Domingo Garcia Hindoyan (born in Caracas, February 15, 1980) is a Venezuelan - Armenian conductor and violinist.
Venezuelan Armenian conductor Domingo Hindoyan is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with many leading orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera, as well as the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
He began his music studies as a violinist and learned in the El Sistema programme in Venezuela before studying the violin and conducting at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. In 2013 he became first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
In June 2019, Hindoyan first guest-conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (RLPO).He became principal guest conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in September 2019. In June 2020, the RLPO announced the appointment of Hindoyan as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2021-2022 season. This appointment marks his first chief conductor post.
Hindoyan is married to the soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The couple have two children, a son, Mateo, born on 6 October 2014, and a daughter, Sofia, born in October 2019. The family resides in canton Vaud, Switzerland.