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Thomas Dausgaard

Conductor

Biography

Thomas Dausgaard is Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. From 2019/20 he will become Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, and currently serves as their Principal Guest Conductor. He also holds titles as Honorary Conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana (ORT), and of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, having previously served as its Chief Conductor from 2004–2011.

He is renowned for his creativity and innovation in programming, the excitement of his live performances, and his extensive catalogue of critically-acclaimed recordings. His programming in recent seasons has seen an increased focus on the exploration of influences to be found in folk and liturgical music on orchestral works by a range of composers including Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, Nielsen and Bartok.

 

He regularly appears with the world’s leading orchestras, and recent seasons in Europe have seen guest-conducting engagements with the Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He began his North American career assisting Seiji Ozawa, and has since appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Washington National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and the Montreal Symphony. He is also a regular visitor to Asia and Australia, appearing with the Singapore Symphony, New Japan, China and Hong Kong Philharmonics, and the Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies. Festival appearances have included the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Salzburg Festival, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the George Enescu Festival, and Tanglewood.

As a recording artist, current and upcoming projects include Brahms symphonies with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos combined with six newly commissioned companion works also with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Bruckner symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic, all for BIS; Sibelius’ Kullervo with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Hyperion; a multi-disc survey of Bartók’s orchestral music with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Onyx; and Nielsen symphonies with the Seattle Symphony on their own label. His recent release of a critically acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 (Deryck Cooke version III) with the Seattle Symphony, received the Gramophone Magazine Disc of the Month among other awards, and was a finalist for the Gramophone Award for orchestral music. In total, he has made well over 70 CDs to date, including complete cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Rued Langgaard, and a disc of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s orchestral repertoire with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Da Capo. “Opening Doors”, his ground-breaking series for BIS with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, has consistently won praise for performances of 19th-century repertoire more usually associated with symphony orchestras.

He has been awarded the Cross of Chivalry by the Queen of Denmark, and elected to the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden. His interests beyond music are wide-ranging, and include architecture, landscape, and a fascination with the life and culture of remote communities. He lives in Denmark with his family.
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