Thomas Herzog has been working as a ballet conductor at Theater Basel since 2014 and at the Hungarian State Opera since 2019. He has collaborated with choreographers including Johan Inger, David Dawson, Richard Wherlock, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Hans van Manen, Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacevich, Marco Goecke, Stephan Thoss, Stijn Celis, Pontus Lidberg, Edward Clug, Gil Harush, and Jeroen Verbruggen.
In recent years, he has conducted numerous ballet productions at Semperoper Dresden and made his debuts with the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam, at the Rome Opera, the Aalto-Theater Essen, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and at Musiktheater St. Gallen. Since 2022, Thomas Herzog has been a regular guest conductor with the RTVE Radio Orchestra and Choir in Madrid, and for more than 15 years he has maintained a close collaboration with the Württemberg Philharmonic and the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. As a regular guest conductor, he has maintained long-standing partnerships with the symphony orchestras in Szeged, Miskolc, and Szombathely, as well as with the Montevideo Philharmonic in Uruguay and the Asunción Symphony Orchestra in Paraguay. He has also made guest appearances at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Saarbrücken State Theatre, Cairo Opera, and has worked with orchestras such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, and the Residentie Orkest Den Haag.
Return engagements included conducting the German State Philharmonic Rheinland-Pfalz, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Hungarian Radio Orchestra in Budapest, the Cluj State Philharmonic and the Macedonian Philharmonic in Skopje.
Thomas Herzog was born in Basel in 1972. Whilst still a student (studying percussion, composition and conducting), he won first prize in the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne’s competition for young composers in 1997. From 2002 to 2018, he conducted the traditional Basel New Year’s Eve Concert 17 consecutive times with the Basel Festival Orchestra.
