Season 25/26: debuts and comebacks

The new concert season begins with an event exceptionally important for Tomáš: beginning September, he is taking up the position of chief conductor and music director of the world-renowned Prague Symphony Orchestra. “The opportunity to influence and shape a symphony orchestra, which I can cultivate musically and aesthetically, is a fundamental and unique moment for me,” admits Tomáš, who, in addition to an intensive programme with “his” new orchestra, has a number of foreign engagements, returns to familiar settings, and completely new collaborations ahead of him.

After the inaugural concert in the beautiful Smetana Hall of Prague’s Municipal House, Tomáš will fly to Canada, where, too, he will open the concert season, this time together with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Canadian violinist James Ehnes. The beginning of October will belong to the Prague National Theater Opera and a performance of last year’s successful production of Dvořák’s Rusalka. With the exeption of a stop-over in England with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and the release of a new recording of Prokofiev’s and Shostakovich’s violin concertos, which he recorded for Supraphon with Daniel Matejča and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomáš will devote the tenth month of the year entirely to the Prague Symphony Orchestra, whether at the Municipal House or on tours to Slovakia and Switzerland. The turn of autumn and winter will be marked primarily by Tomáš’s debut at the Berlin State Opera, where he will conduct a production of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. Before Christmas, he will take the helm of the Collegium 1704 ensemble for the first time.

Tomáš will celebrate the New Year 2026 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra performing Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. This will be followed by another opera debut – Strauss’s Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago – and a return to the TonkünstlerOrchestraand collaborations with ensembles such as the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Poznań and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestras, and the early music ensemble Silentium!, with whom Tomáš will perform at the Hudba Znojmo festival.

Details of all of Tomáš’s concerts can be found in our calendar, which is gradually filling up. Follow the latest news on his social networks; all the necessary links can also be found HERE.

Photo: Marco Borggreve