Thomas Jung
Thomas was appointed as the inaugural Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow with Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet in 2018. He has conducted several productions for BRB, including Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast and the world premieres of Sense of Time (Didy Veldman, music by Gabriel Prokofiev), and Hotel (Morgann Runacre-Temple, music by Mikael Karlsson). He has also conducted BRB’s 2022 triple bill featuring symphonic repertoire such as Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da requiem, in Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, choreographed by Uwe Scholz. Thomas has been working with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Dresden Philharmonic, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Het Gelders Orkest, Mantua Chamber Orchestra, and Tianjin Grand Opera Symphony Orchestra as a guest conductor. From 2013 to 2019 Thomas worked with Bernard Haitink on numerous occasions as Assistant and Cover Conductor. Thomas is the second prize winner of the 2020 International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, a recipient of the Eugen-Jochum-Prize and studied at King’s College Cambridge and Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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