Tom Seligman

Winner of the Alexander Gibson Young Conductor's Award in 2000 and shortlisted for a prestigious Arts Foundation award this year, Tom Seligman studied with Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Scottish Academy after graduating from Cambridge University, and later with Jorma Panula in Amsterdam.

He has conducted critically acclaimed productions of The Rake's Progress and The Beggar's Opera for Edinburgh Studio Opera, and assisted Joseph Swensen at the Salzburg Festival and at the BBC Proms. In recent months he has worked with Opera East, Grange Park Opera, the London Sinfonietta, the Salomon Orchestra, Salisbury Sinfonia, Singers of London and other orchestras and choirs in London and throughout the UK, including period-instrument productions of Handel’s Theodora and Semele. He was guest chorus-master of the London Symphony Chorus for a performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under Claudio Abbado at last summer’s BBC Proms.

Tom was Musical Co-ordinator and Conductor of the inaugural Cheltenham Festival Academy in 2005, working with some of the most brilliant young musical talents from across the UK, and was invited back to conduct at the Festival in 2006 and in 2007, when he made his debut with the Brno Philharmonic. He made his BBC Radio 3 debut conducting the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2005 St Magnus Festival in Orkney.

Tom is Director of Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, with whom he toured northern Italy in August 2007, Musical Director of the Nonesuch Orchestra and Principal Conductor of Kensington Chamber Orchestra.