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General Management with Askonas Holt

Partner managers:
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Eva Wagner, Astrid Schoerke Kunstlersekretariat
Japan: Chikako Itagaki, Novellette Arts Management

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About Thomas

Principal Conductor: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Principal Conductor: Irish Chamber Orchestra Principal Conductor: Orchestre National d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Conductor Laureate: Royal Northern Sinfonia

Thomas Zehetmair enjoys international acclaim as a violinist, conductor and founding member of Zehetmair Quartet. Thomas received much inspiration from his work as a soloist with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Frans Brüggen, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and Paavo Järvi.
As a conductor, he has appeared with orchestras including London Philharmonic, The Hallé, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Eighteenth-Century, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hamburger Philharmoniker, Mozarteum Orchester and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León.

He was Chief Conductor of Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Artistic Partner of St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Thomas has an extensive and varied discography, including Paganini's Caprices, which won a Midem Classic Award. He received Gramophone Awards for his rendition of the Elgar Concerto with Sir Mark Elder and Szymanowski Concertos with Sir Simon Rattle. A Gramophone Award of the Year and four other international prizes were presented to the Zehetmair Quartet for their recording of Schumann Quartets.

He received an Opus Klassik Award 2020 for his disc of Bach's Six Solo Sonatas and Partitas, recorded with Baroque violin, which was also selected by The New York Times as one of “The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019” and Die Zeit as one of their six favourite recordings of 2019.

Thomas is based in Berlin

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Representation

General Management with Askonas Holt

Partner managers:
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Eva Wagner, Astrid Schoerke Kunstlersekretariat
Japan: Chikako Itagaki, Novellette Arts Management

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Auditorium de Lyon
Grieg: String Quartet No. 2 in F Schumann: Piano Concerto in Am Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat 'Eroica' Orchestre national d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Thomas Zehetmair (conductor) François Dumont (piano)
Nov 2024
Glasshouse, Gateshead
F Mendelssohn: Overture in C Mozart: Symphony no. 31 in D 'Paris' Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F Royal Northern Sinfonia Thomas Zehetmair (conductor)
Nov 2024
Whyte Recital Hall, Dublin
Fennessey: World Premiere Mozart: Requiem Irish Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir of Ireland Thomas Zehetmair (conductor) Ailish Tynan (soprano) Robin Tritschler ( tenor) Padraic Rowen (bass)

Sample Programmes

  • Solo Bach

    J. S Bach: Solo Sonatas & Partitas Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001 Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002 Sonata No.2 in A minor BWV 1003 Partita No.2 in D minor BWV 1004 Sonata No. 3 in C major BWV 1005 Partita No.3 in E major BWV 1006

  • Solo

    Biber: Passacaglia in G minor Zimmermann: Sonata for solo violin Hartmann: Sonata No.1 for solo violin interval Bach: Partita No.2 in D minor BWV 1004

News

Press

  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Queens Hall Edinburgh
    Oct 2021
    • Zehetmair’s high-energy, high-impact approach really came into its own in the concert’s closer, Haydn’s “Oxford” Symphony, from a shapely, stylish slow movement (with supple, sculpted contributions from principal flautist André Cebrián), to a boisterious (sic) minuet and trio that would have made its dancers break a sweat.