Thomas Zehetmair
is considered one of the most versatile musicians of our time and has been a fixture on the world’s concert stages and in the recording studio as a conductor and violinist with his own string quar­tet for many years. He has been chief conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur since the 2016/17 season. The orchestra’s recording of Anton Bruckner’s Third Symphony is testimony to this fruitful collaboration. Thomas Zehetmair was previously Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota.

Between 2002 and 2014, he held the post of Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, transforming it into one of the United Kingdom’s leading orchestras, as documented by recordings of symphonies by Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius and Hans Gál as well as newly discovered works by Britten. Zehetmair continues to maintain relations with the orchestra as Conductor Laureate. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Newcastle and Weimar. In the coming seasons, he will be giving guest appearances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Moscow, and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Thomas Zehetmair will be chief conductor of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra as of September 2019.