Arthur Nestrovski(Porto Alegre, 1959) é o diretor artístico da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Osesp), desde janeiro de 2010. Formado em música pela Universidade de York (Inglaterra) e doutor em literatura e música pela Universidade de Iowa (EUA), Nestrovski foi professor titular no programa de pós-graduação em comunicação e semiótica da PUC/SP de 1991 a 2005. Articulista da Folha de S.Paulo (1992 -2009) e editor da PubliFolha (1999-2009), ele é autor de Notas Musicais (Publifolha, 2000), Outras Notas Musicais (Publifolha, 2009) e Palavra e Sombra (Ateliê, 2009), entre outros livros – incluindo alguns premiados títulos de literatura infantil, como Histórias de Avô e Avó (Companhia das Letras, 1997, 13a. ed., 2010) e Bichos Que Existem e Bichos Que Não Existem (Cosac Naify, 2002, Prêmio Jabuti de Livro do Ano/Ficção). 

ARTHUR NESTROVSKI (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1959) is the artistic director of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp), since January 2010.

He graduated in Music at the University of York (England); and he holds a Ph.D. in Music and Literature from Iowa University (USA). From 1992 until 2009, he was a senior music critic for Folha de S.Paulo, and he was also a senior editor at PubliFolha, the newspaper's publishing branch. A tenured lecturer at the Graduate College of PUC/São Paulo from 1991 to 2005, he is the author of Notas Musicais (2000), Outras Notas Musicais (2009), Palavra e Sombra (2009) and Três Canções de Tom Jobim (with L. Mammì and L. Tatit, 2004), among other books – including nine prize-winning titles for children.

He returned to professional work as a guitar player and composer in 2004, and has since played next to Zé Miguel Wisnik, Tom Zé, and Zélia Duncan, among other top Brazilian artists. His solo album Jobim Violão, was released in 2007 and has been reissued twice. Chico Violão (featuring the music of Chico Buarque) came out in 2010. Other recorded projects include Tudo o Que Gira Parece a Felicidade, with songs and instrumental pieces written for a dance project by Ivaldo Bertazzo and Inês Bogéa. He is the music director for Vila Sésamo (the Brazilian version of Sesame Street), broadcast nationwide by TV Cultura.

Over the years, he has been an advisor to several projects and instituitions, including Museu da Língua Portuguesa and Petrobras Cultural.