1999

Music Director, San Francisco Symphony (since 1995)
Artistic Director, New World Symphony (since 1990)
Principal Guest Conductor, London Symphony Orchestra (since 1995)

Tours:

San Francisco Symphony, European Tour: Dublin, London, Madrid, Murcia, Valencia, Barcelona, Toulouse, Paris, Amsterdam, Hannover, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Brussels, Vienna London Symphony Orchestra, Spring Tour: Ljubljana, Linz, Vienna, Bergenz. London Symphony Orchestra, Fall Tour: Freiberg, Dusseldorf, Paris, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna

Summer Festival:

Pacific Music Festival (Artistic Director) (PMFO)

Recordings for BMG/Classics:

Copland: The Populist Suite from Billy the Kid
Appalachian Spring
Fanfare for the Common Man
Suite from Our Town
Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo; San Francisco Symphony
Ives: An American Journey From the Steeples and the Mountains
The Things Our Fathers Loved
The Pond
Memories: A. Very Pleasant, B. Rather Sad
The Housatonic at Stockbridge from Three Places in New England
Charlie Rutlage
The Circus Band
Putnam’s Camp from Three Places in New England
Three Places in New England
In Flanders Fields (arr. David Del Tredici)
They Are There!
Tom Sails Away
Fugue from Symphony No. 4
Psalm 100
Serenity
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
The Unanswered Question; Thomas Hampson, Michael Tilson Thomas, piano, San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus

Television:

NHK-TV from Sapporo: Bernstein: Symphony No. 2: Age of Anxiety Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Takemitsu: Ceremonial

Compositions:

Sentimental Again and New Year’s Song Audra McDonald, New World Symphony
Whitman Songs, Orchestral version; first performance, Thomas Hampson, San Francisco Symphony