Monthly Archives: January 2012

Following a two-week Beethoven & Bates Festival with the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to Miami Beach, Florida for concerts and a special master class and open rehearsal with the New World Symphony.

On Sunday, January 22, Londoners can attend MTT at work with the LSO as they prepare Debussy’s Préludesand Weil’s Seven Deadly Sins with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. Click here for tickets to this open rehearsal. Before the evening concert on January 24, MTT will participate in the LSO’s “Artist Conversation,” part of the orchestra’s Centre of the Orchestra series. MTT will respond to selected questions sent to him through Facebook. You can submit your questions by visiting the LSO’s Facebook page

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London Concerts and Spanish Tour This month, Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the London Symphony Orchestra, where he is Principal Guest Conductor, for a series of concert and recital programs in London and throughout Spain. On January 24 , MTT and the LSO take the stage at Barbican Hall, London, performing Berlioz’sSymphonie fantastique and works by Debussy: the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra with pianist Nelson Freier and selected préludes orchestrated by …

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MTT at TED 2012


Next month Michael Tilson Thomas will give a talk at TED2012: Full Spectrum in Long Beach, California. Devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” TED brings together leading figures in technology, entertainment, and design. MTT joins more than 60 other speakers and performers at the upcoming forum, which takes place from February 28 to March 2. Video footage of MTT’s talk, as well as of the other speakers’, will be available at …

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