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Music Director: Minnesota Orchestra Music Director: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård is the Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, following six seasons as their Principal Guest Conductor. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as Principal Conductor of BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW), after stepping down as Principal Conductor and Musical Advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

With the Minnesota Orchestra in 2024/25, Thomas leads a diverse range of programmes, including a Nordic Composers Festival, concert performances of Puccini's Turandot, and projects with leading soloists such as Yunchan Lim, Isabelle Faust, Julia Bullock and Bruce Liu. Highlights with the RSNO this season include Mahler's epic Symphony No. 2, a collaboration with Dunedin Consort, and closing the season with a celebration of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Other highlights for Thomas this season include his returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin (Elektra), Den Norske Opera (Peer Gynt), and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Thomas will also lead a project with the Aarhus Symfoniorkester celebrating the 750th anniversary of the city of Holstebro - his home city.

He has appeared with many notable orchestras in leading European centres, such as Berlin (including Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin), Munich (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk), Zurich (Tonhalle Orchester Zurich), Leipzig (Gewandhausorchester), Paris (Orchestre National de France), London (London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra), Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic) and is a familiar figure in Scandinavia, with such orchestras as Oslo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic. North American appearances to date have included the symphony orchestras of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, St Louis, Toronto, Atlanta, Montreal, Vancouver, Houston and Seattle. He has also made highly successful tours to China, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Thomas is based in Copenhagen

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
Minnesota Orchestra | Season Opening HECTOR BERLIOZ : Roman Carnival SERGEI RACHMANINOV : Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 -- ANDREA TARRODI : Liguria OTTORINO RESPIGHI : Pines of Rome Soloist: Yunchan Lim
Oct 2024
Aberdeen, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Season Opening Programme 1 (Aberdeen) HUGO ALFVÉN : Bergakungen 'The Mountain King' Suite Op. 37 RICHARD STRAUSS : Oboe Concerto in D major, Op 144 -- EDVARD GRIEG : Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 & 2 Soloist: Adrian Wilson Programme 2 (Edinburgh & Glasgow) GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' Soloists: Julie Roset & Linda Watson
Oct 2024
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS : Don Juan, Op. 20 THOMAS ADÈS : Violin Concerto "Concentric Paths" -- JOHANNES BRAHMS : Symphony No. 2 in D Major Op. 73 Soloist: Leila Josefowicz

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  • RSNO: Dvorak Symphony No. 6

    Edinburgh
    Nov 2023
    • "Thomas Søndergård shaped the opening movement with a gorgeous sense of heft, with the main theme slowly and beautifully filling out but always moving forwards purposefully. The sweet, sunlit slow movement benefited from drop-dead-gorgeous string tone, and a lucidly played Trio sat in the middle of a storming Furiant."