Neil Thomson
| Neil William Thomson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 23, 1966 London, England |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | conductor |
| Instruments | Viola |
Neil William Thomson (born 23 May 1966) is a British conductor and conducting professor.
Neil Thomson was born in London in 1966, studied violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music (1984-87) and conducting with Norman Del Mar at the Royal College of Music (1987-89). He was a member of the conducting class at Tanglewood Summer School in 1989 where his teachers included Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Sanderling and Leonard Bernstein.
Since March 2014 he has served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Goiás, Brazil. In the UK he has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.
Recent debuts include concerts with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Minas Gerais Philarmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, the Century Orchestra Osaka, the Kansai Philharmonic, the Lahti Sinfonia, the Romanian National Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, the Ulster Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of Gothenburg Opera, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North.
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