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The Austrian cellist and conductor, Thomas Platzgummer, studied cello in Feldkirch, Salzburg, Vienna and Graz with Annick Gautier, Wilfried Tachezi and Rudolf Leopold. He received chamber music lessons from members of the Hagen and Rosamunde Quartets as well as the Quatuor Mosaique. In the field of early music, he continued his education with the Baroque cello and through lessons in historical performance practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christophe Coin, Hidemi Suzuki and Lorenz Duftschmid. Additional lessons and master-classes took place with Philip Muller, Walter Despalj and Heinrich Schiff.
Thomas Platzgummer is a member of the Ensembles Zeitfluss für Neue Musik, Salonfähigen Saitenspringer, Barockorchesters Concerto Stella Matutina (Opus Klassik 2020 award), Linus Ensemble Graz, as well as participated in the Brucknerorchester-Linz and Grazer Philharmonischen Orchester (Grazer Oper). Since 2006, head of a cello class and the symphony orchestra at the Johann-Joseph-Fux Konservatorium in Graz.
Together with the director Wolfgang Atzenhofer, he founded the Murauer Operettenfestspiele in 1998 and the Kammeroper Graz (focus on Baroque opera) in 2003, of which he remains musical director and conductor to this day. Together with the soprano Miriam Feuersinger, he founded in 2014 the Bach Cantata Series in Voralberg. He appears as a soloist, chamber musician or conductor at the Salzburger Festspielen, Styriarte Graz, Bregenzer Festspielen, Donaufestwochen Grein, Rheingau Musik Festival, Osterklang Wien, Osterfestival Tirol, Magdeburger Telemann Festtage, Schütz Musikfest Dresden, etc. He is guest conductor, lecturer and juror at various orchestras, festivals and competitions, as well as a coach and teacher of instrumentalists, singers and ensembles.
Thomas Platzgummer musical expertise ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary, and he is equally at home with chamber music, orchestral music, opera, and operetta. He has directed over 60 operas, from Monteverdi‘s L‘Orfeo to Hermann Nitsch's Orgies Mysteries Theatre, as well as more than 30 J.S. Bach cantatas, several major symphonic works by Gustav Mahler, Bruckner, Gustav Holst, and many world premieres.
The next concerts and performances will take him to Austria, Slovenia, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, the Ukraine, and China. Since its founding in 2017, he has been the conductor and artistic director of the State Youth Symphony Orchestra of Styria (Landesjugendsinfonieorchester Steiermark). |
