Excellent review in Seen and Heard for Oxford Lieder Festival “…marvellous sweep in their performance…”
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October 2017...
Thomas will be conducting the OAE at the Vienna Konserthaus in May 2018 in a performance of Der Rosenkavalier. Filmed in the Schoenbrunn Palace in 1925 - this will be taking the film back to where it was conceived and where Strauss and Hugo von Hoffmanstahl collaborated on the movie with film director Robert Weine...
Thomas will be conducting Strauss in Shanghai this December with the...
Thomas will be conducting performances as part of the Music@Malling Festival. He will be giving four performances of Paul Patterson - Little Red Riding Hood and conducting a concert of British classics including the Elgar Cello Concerto with soloist Richard Harwood, Alexander Goehr - Broken Lute and Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending and Thomas...
Thomas will conduct two concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this October as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival. The opening concert of the Festival will be in the iconic Sheldonian Theatre conducting salon arrangements of Mahler - Das Lied von Der Erde, Mahler - Lieder lines Fahrenden Gesellen and the premiere...
Thomas will be conducting Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier in a rarely heard salon version from 1925 accompanying a silent film of the opera. The performance is part of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Southbank Series - Visions, Illusions and Delusions - and includes premieres of Strauss songs arranged for silent film, sung by...
Thomas spent a week in Lapland conducting Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Walton and Jolivet. The Pojolan Sanomat praised the performance for its "perfect balance of sound and soulful interpretation....The string section threw themselves into a frenzied rhythm under the masterful direction of Thomas...
Here is a piece for the Arts Professional about running a music festival:
Thomas Kemp is to conduct Chamber Domaine in two recordings in early 2017 of rarely heard works of Jean Sibelius and the complete music for flute and ensemble by Mozart. The Sibelius recording will include the melodrama The Woodnymph recorded for the first time in English and the world premiere of the original pit band...
Here is a link to a piece for The Gramophone which highlights to issues with music education in schools.