Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Born in Los Angeles, he is the third generation of his family to follow an artistic career. His grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, were founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America. His father, Ted Thomas, was a producer in the Mercury Theater Company in New York before moving to Los Angeles where he worked in films and television. His mother, Roberta Thomas, was the head of research for Columbia Pictures.
Mr. Tilson Thomas began his formal studies at the University of Southern California where he studied piano with John Crown and conducting and composition with Ingolf Dahl. At age nineteen he was named Music Director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. He worked with Stravinsky, Boulez...
Keeping Score:
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3, Erioca.
San Francisco Symphony.
SFS Media, InCA Productions - David Kennard, Joan Saffa, Gary Halverson, Directors.
Aired on PBS in September 2006
Keeping Score:
Stravinsky - Sacre du Printemps.
San Francisco Symphony.
SFS Media, InCA Productions - David Kennard, Joan Saffa, Gary Halverson, Directors.
Aired on PBS in September 2006
Keeping Score:
Copland and the American Sound
San Francisco Symphony.
SFS Media, InCA Productions - David Kennard, Joan Saffa, Gary Halverson, Directors.
Aired on PBS in September 2006
Keeping Score:
The Making of a Performance
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4.
San Francisco Symphony.
SFS Media, InCA Productions - David Kennard, Joan Saffa, Gary Halverson, Directors.
Aired on PBS Great Perofrmances,
June 16, 2004
