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Born in London and based now in Berlin, Tom Seligman is one of the UK’s most versatile conducting talents, busy with a wide and exciting range of projects.
Tom Seligman made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2010, and has since been regularly invited back, conducting the Royal Ballet in repertoire including The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Don Quixote, Chroma, Obsidian Tear, Frankenstein, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. His performances of The Nutcracker and The Winter's Tale were relayed to cinema screens around the world. He has conducted Jewels and The Nutcracker for New York City Ballet, The Winter's Tale for National Ballet of Canada and Hamburg Ballet, The Dream, A Month in the Country and La fille mal gardée for Birmingham Royal Ballet, Giselle for Theater Basel, and for English National Ballet Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall and Le Corsaire and Coppélia in China and Singapore. Recent seasons have included debuts in Brisbane, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, and regular returns to the Bavarian State Ballet and the Dresden Semperoper Ballet. This season includes his debut with Tokyo Ballet. |
Opera productions include The Rake's Progress and The Beggar's Opera for Edinburgh Studio Opera, Le nozze di Figaro for Opera East and Die Zauberflöte and Die Fledermaus for Opernfest Berlin, as well as concert performances of Handel Theodora and Semele, Verdi Un giorno di regno, Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen and Jenůfa and Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel.
He has worked extensively with the London Symphony Chorus and was chorus-master for the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s performance of Mahler's 3rd Symphony under Claudio Abbado at the 2007 BBC Proms. As Guest Chorus Director for the Hallé's recording of Elgar's The Kingdom under Sir Mark Elder, he won the 2011 Gramophone Award for best choral recording. Projects with the BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus have included concerts at the Barbican and Royal Albert Hall, a Chandos recording of Berlioz Roméo et Juliette and the 2016 Last Night of the Proms.
Tom is also artistic director of Five Senses Music, bringing audiences of all ages into closer contact with orchestral and operatic music through innovative interactive projects and events in London and Berlin. In 2022 and again in 2023, he was on the podium for the Konzerthausorchester Berlin‘s Christmas concert, delighting a huge family audience.
He has worked extensively with the London Symphony Chorus and was chorus-master for the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s performance of Mahler's 3rd Symphony under Claudio Abbado at the 2007 BBC Proms. As Guest Chorus Director for the Hallé's recording of Elgar's The Kingdom under Sir Mark Elder, he won the 2011 Gramophone Award for best choral recording. Projects with the BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus have included concerts at the Barbican and Royal Albert Hall, a Chandos recording of Berlioz Roméo et Juliette and the 2016 Last Night of the Proms.
Tom is also artistic director of Five Senses Music, bringing audiences of all ages into closer contact with orchestral and operatic music through innovative interactive projects and events in London and Berlin. In 2022 and again in 2023, he was on the podium for the Konzerthausorchester Berlin‘s Christmas concert, delighting a huge family audience.
