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Principal Conductor, KCO

Tom Seligman

Winner of the Alexander Gibson Young Conductor's Award in 2000 and shortlisted in 2008 for a prestigious Arts Foundation award, Tom Seligman studied with Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Scottish Academy after graduating from Cambridge University, and later with Jorma Panula in Amsterdam.

In December 2010, he made his Royal Opera House debut conducting Peter and the Wolf and Tales of Beatrix Potter for the Royal Ballet. He has also conducted critically acclaimed productions of The Rake's Progress and The Beggar's Opera for Edinburgh Studio Opera and Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera East, and assisted Joseph Swensen at the Salzburg Festival and at the BBC Proms. He has worked with Grange Park Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, London Sinfonietta, Salomon Orchestra, Salisbury Sinfonia, Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Orchestral Society, Brighton Festival Chorus and Youth Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, Waynflete Singers and other orchestras and choirs in London and throughout the UK, and conducted productions of Handel’s Theodora and Semele and Janá&ccaron;ek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. He was guest chorus-master of the London Symphony Chorus for a performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under Claudio Abbado at the 2007 Proms, and has since returned to work with the Chorus on a wide variety of projects, including the world premiere of James Macmillan’s St John Passion. He was Guest Chorus Director for the Hallé’s recent recording of Elgar’s The Kingdom under Sir Mark Elder, garnering critical acclaim for the Choir’s performance. In Hampshire he has conducted performances of the Bach B minor Mass, Mozart, Brahms and Fauré Requiems and Haydn The Creation, and will be opening the 2011 Winchester Festival with Mahler’s 'Resurrection' Symphony.

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 and took the helm at the Musique Cordiale Festival in the south of France in the summers of 2008 to 2010; he returns in 2011. He is also an experienced animateur, leading creative workshops with hundreds of young people across Britain, as well as adult singers as part of the Southbank Centre’s ‘Voicelab’ project.

As well as working regularly with the Royal Ballet, Tom is Director of Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of Kensington Chamber Orchestra and Hertfordshire Schools Symphony Orchestra.