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The fourth episode of Thomas Dausgaard’s new Thomas’ Music Room YouTube series is available now on YouTube. This week’s episode is about Nielsen’s masterpiece Helios - celebrating the life-giving source, the sun!

The third episode of Thomas Dausgaard’s new Thomas’ Music Room YouTube series: “Bartók's Folk Dances” is available now. Thomas is joined by flautist and Thomas Music Room co-editor Alissa Rossius for this entertaining and informative look at the great Hungarian...

“Conducting”, the second episode of Thomas’ Music Room is out now! We are overwhelmed by the response to the first episode, “Beethoven: Symphony No. 1”, which has been watched more than 50,000 times in its first week. Now Thomas shares some of his secrets on how to...

Thomas Dausgaard welcomes you to Thomas’ Music Room. This new interactive concept for music and children launches on Friday, 28 May on YouTube. The weekly series will feature 10-12 minute episodes that inspire children to experience music in new, fun and interesting...

"Thomas Dausgaard’s interpretation [of Mahler: Symphony No. 10] with the Seattle Symphony is one of the best you could wish for," writes Valdemar Lønsted in the Danish newspaper, Information. He continues, "Dausgaard gives the Adagio a good momentum. His tempos are...

Thomas Dausgaard has released a new Spotify playlist to celebrate International Women's Day. He writes, "For the international women’s day 2021 I would like to celebrate and honour my female musical heroes who inspired me as I grew up, and still do today." Explore the...

Thomas Dausgaard and Seattle Symphony’s world premiere performance of George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 5, “Visions”, will be released on Seattle Symphony Media on 5 March. The recording features vocalists Clayton Brainerd, Ed Morris, Stephen Newby and Shaina Shepherd. The...

“What a fresh, lively, transparent Brahms Fourth this is!” writes Steven Kruger in Fanfare magazine of Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s recent BIS recording. He continues, “[I] find my interest in Brahms instantly revived. The Swedish Chamber...

Thomas Dausgaard has joined Opus 3 Artists for representation in the Americas and the Caribbean. Mr Dausgaard will continue to be represented by IMG Artists’ London office for general management. Thomas Dausgaard is the Music Director of the Seattle Symphony and the...

BBC Music Magazine has named Thomas Dausgaard and Seattle Symphony’s R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Scriabin: Symphony No. 4 release to its “Best Classical Albums of 2021 So Far” list. In his 5 Star review, David Nice writes:  “Any conventional idea that there...

Thomas Dausgaard and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra release their second volume of Bartók’s orchestral works on Onyx Classics. The album’s centrepiece is their recording of the recently rediscovered original score of the composer’s The Miraculous Mandarin. Bartók’s...

Gramophone magazine has hailed Thomas Dausgaard and Seattle Symphony’s recent recording of Nielsen’s Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 its Recording of the Month for November 2020. Andrew Mellor writes: “Nielsen’s early symphonies aren’t just well-kept secrets; they are...

Thomas Dausgaard returns to Glasgow's City Halls to conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the 2020 BBC Live Proms on 5 September at 19:30 BST. Thomas will give the world premiere of Jay Capperauld’s Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn). The programme...

Join Thomas Dausgaard tonight on BBC Radio 3 as he takes you on a musical journey with InTune Mixtape. Thomas curated an exclusive and eclectic 30-minute mix of Swedish jazz, Danish folk, Strauss song and didgeridoo. Listen live on BBC Radio 3 from 19:00 BST on 11...

The Seattle Symphony will broadcast a two-part presentation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring led by Thomas Dausgaard on May 2 and 3. The concerts will be available on the Seattle Symphony YouTube channel from 8:00 PM PST on May 2 (Part 1) and 2:00 PM PST May 3 (Part...

Thomas Dausgaard has curated a Nordic Playlist in celebration of Earth Day 2020 for Seattle Symphony. He writes: Dear friends, Happy Earth Day! For me, nature and music are closely intertwined. In Seattle, I love the way nature interacts with the city. You are never...

Seattle Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard rebroadcast an all-Brahms program featuring Seattle-favorite Garrick Ohlsson performing finale of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto The Seattle Symphony presents Dausgaard Conducts Brahms Featuring Garrick Ohlsson as this week’s...

Thomas Dausgaard introduces Seattle Symphony's 2020/21 Highlights. Watch now! Visit seattlesymphony.org to discover more.

As he enters his second season as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, Thomas Dausgaard spoke with Andrew Stiefel about the 2020/21 season and reflects on music’s power to move us. This will be your second season as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony. What's...

“The cheers rang out long and loudly,” (The Seattle Times) for Thomas Dausgaard’s first subscription concert as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony. The 19 September concert at Benaroya Hall had the magisterial pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist. The...

Thomas Dausgaard began his tenure as Music Director of Seattle Symphony with the annual Opening Night Gala on September 14 at Benaroya Hall. The concert opened and closed with celebratory short works by Danish composers, Carl Nielsen’s “Maskarade” overture...

Thomas Dausgaard’s latest album “Sibelius: Kullervo Symphony Op 7” was released on 28 June under Hyperion records. With soloists Benjamin Appl and Helena Juntunen, Dausgaard leads a performance that has gained favoured reviews from various sources. Robert...

Thomas Dausgaard recently had a conversation with Andrew Mellor of Gramophone magazine on the disturbing and violent theme of Sibelius’s Kullervo. Speaking on the subject matter, Dausgaard starts off saying “Sometimes I wonder how Sibelius could have been...

Music critic Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times has praised Thomas Dausgaard's New York Philharmonic debut, claiming he should be a NY Philharmonic regular after leading "an exceptionally urgent and insightful account of Schumann’s Second Symphony." He continues,...

Thomas Dausgaard will make his New York Philharmonic debut next month.  Substituting for Zubin Mehta, Dausgaard will lead a new programme featuring Nielsen’s Helios Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Stephen Hough, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2....

Nielsen Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, has been nominated for a Grammy© award in the category of Best Orchestral Performance. Aaron Jay Kernis Violin Concerto, conducted by Ludovic Morlot with soloist James Ehnes, is also nominated for Best...

Seattle Symphony took home the Gramophone Award for Orchestra of the Year. The award was announced at the gala ceremony on Thursday, 13 September at London’s De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. The reader-voted honuor is newly created for the 2018 awards, and is bestowed...

In recognition of the recent acclaimed recordings made with Thomas Dausgaard and Ludovic Morlot, it was announced this week that the Seattle Symphony has been nominated for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year award. Principal Guest Conductor and Music Director...

Thomas Dausgaard conducted the Seattle Symphony's first-ever performance of Sibelius's Kullervo, a performance which has been praised by Bachtrack. Bachtrack's Thomas May writes, "What stood out above all in Dausgaard’s impassioned account was exactly this sense of...