Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is the artistic director of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy based in Miami Beach, Florida. He has led two incarnations of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which brings young musicians from around the world together for music making and learning.
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Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently the artistic director of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy based in Miami Beach, Florida. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Ted and Roberta Thomas, a Broadway stage manager and a middle school history teacher respectively. His great-grandfather, Pincus, was an actor and playwright, and before that to a long line of cantors; his father, Theodor Herzl Tomashefsky, was a poet and painter. He studied piano with John Crown and composition and conducting under Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California. He has led two incarnations of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which brings young musicians from around the world together for a week of music making and learning. He currently serves as president of the TomasheFSky Project, a USD 2 million undertaking formed in 2017 that will record and preserve his grandparents’ theatrical achievements.
He lives in San Francisco with his husband and partner of over 40 years, Joshua Robison. The couple married on November 2, 2014 and have a son, Zachary, who is also a conductor. He also has a daughter, Emma, and a son-in-law, David, who works as a composer and arranger for the San Francisco Symphony and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1987, he founded the New Symphony in Miami, Florida, an orchestra for gifted young musicians whose mission is to prepare them for distinguished leadership roles in orchestras and ensembles around world. From 1995 to 1995, he held the title of conductor of the Symphony No 3 of Mahler, held the role in the development of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami. In 2007, he returned to the Hollywood Bowl leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic again in the Mahler Eighth, announcing jokingly, “Now where were we?”.
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