Canadian violinist and conductor Peter Oundjian (born 1955) began serving as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2004. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony, and he has appeared as conductor with the Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, St. Louis and Berlin Symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Saarbrucken Radio Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich, the Concertgebouw, as well as with other orchestras. From 2012 Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.