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Principal Conductor, KCO

Tom Seligman

Winner of the Alexander Gibson Young Conductor's Award in 2000 and shortlisted last year for a prestigious Arts Foundation award, Tom Seligman studied with Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Scottish Academy after graduating from Cambridge University, and later with Jorma Panula in Amsterdam.

He has conducted critically acclaimed productions of The Rake's Progress and The Beggar's Opera for Edinburgh Studio Opera, and assisted Joseph Swensen at the Salzburg Festival and at the BBC Proms. He has worked with Opera East, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, London Sinfonietta, Salomon Orchestra, Salisbury Sinfonia, Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Orchestral Society, Brighton Festival Chorus, Singers of London and other orchestras and choirs in London and throughout the UK, including period-instrument productions of Handel’s Theodora and Semele. He was guest chorus-master of the London Symphony Chorus for a performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under Claudio Abbado at the 2007 Proms, and has since returned to work with the Chorus on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the world premiere of James Macmillan’s St John Passion. In Hampshire he has conducted acclaimed performances of Bach B minor Mass, Mozart and Fauré Requiems and Haydn The Creation. Last summer, he has conducted performances of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro on tour with Opera East.

Tom was Musical Co-ordinator and Conductor of the inaugural Cheltenham Festival Academy in 2005, working with some of the most brilliant young musical talents from across the UK, and was invited back to conduct at the Festival in 2006 and in 2007, when he made his debut with the Brno Philharmonic. He made his BBC Radio 3 debut conducting the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2005 St Magnus Festival in Orkney and took the helm at the Festival ‘Musique-Cordiale’ in the south of France in summer 2008. He is also an experienced animateur, leading creative workshops with hundreds of young people across Britain.

Tom is Director of Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, with whom he toured northern Italy in August 2007, Musical Director of the Nonesuch Orchestra and Principal Conductor of Kensington Chamber Orchestra.