Thomas Jung (born 1984) is a German conductor.

Biography

Thomas Jung studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne and at King's College Cambridge. He was appointed as the inaugural Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow at the

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London in 2018 and is conducting for

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and

Birmingham Royal Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the five major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet. Founded as the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the company ...

. In October 2020 Thomas Jung conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for their season opening. Among others, he has been working with Bamberger Symphoniker, Dresden Philharmonic, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Het Gelders Orkest, Orkest van het Oosten and Orchestra di Padua e del Veneto. He was an Assistant and Cover Conductor for Bernard Haitink, was the Zander Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the

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and

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (BPYO) is the youth orchestra of the Boston Philharmonic and is considered the premier youth orchestra in the Boston area. Created in 2012, the tuition-free orchestra consists of musicians between the ages of ...

and has been working as an Assistant at the

WDR Symphony Orchestra The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (German: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra mainly performs at two concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie. Histor ...

Cologne and Gürzenich Orchestra. Jung collaborated with composer and artist

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, realising his Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky's 5th for the 2018 Sydney Biennale. The work received an award of distinction at »

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« 2019 and the »M+ Sigg Award« 2020. Thomas Jung won the second prize at the international Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition 2020 and is a recipient of the Eugen Jochum Award. He was a fellow of the

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and a conducting fellow of the Richard Wagner Association.

External links

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People – Royal Opera House

References

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