Thomas Dausgaard is Music Director of the Seattle Symphony and Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He also holds titles as Conductor Laureate of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Honorary Conductor of both the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra della Toscana. He has been awarded the Cross of Chivalry by the Queen of Denmark, and elected to the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden.
Dausgaard is renowned for his creativity and innovation in programming, and his extensive catalogue of critically-acclaimed recordings. He is passionate about music’s engagement with society and the issues of our time, and its relevance and potential as a vital and innovative force in our lives.
As a guest conductor, Dausgaard maintains close connections with the world’s leading orchestras including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Vienna and Bavarian Radio Symphonies, Toronto Symphony and the Bergen Philharmonic with whom he is recording a Bruckner cycle. He has also appeared with the New York, Los Angeles, Munich and St Petersburg Philharmonics, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the London Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and regularly at prestigious festivals, notably the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Salzburg Festival, Mostly Mozart, the George Enescu Festival, and Tanglewood.