
Conductor
Tomáš Brauner
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor of the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic
Orchestra
Czech conductor Tomáš Brauner (a prizewinner at the Dimitris Mitropoulos
International Conducting Competition in Athens). Chief conductor and artistic director
of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Republic finest orchestra with an almost
100 year of musical tradition.
From 2013 - 2018 he was Chief Conductor of the Pilsen Philharmonic, and from 2014 -
2018 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in
Prague. From 2018 - 2021 held the position Chief conductor of the Bohuslav Martinů
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tomas Brauner active as both an orchestra and opera conductor cooperates and leading
European symphonic orchestra. His guest appearances have seen him conducting the
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Munich Symphony
Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Slovak Philharmonic, Radio State Orchestra, The
Cracow Philharmonic, National Radio Orchestra Romania, PKF Prague Philharmonia,
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of
Colours Athens, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Kosice State
Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, and many more.
Tomáš Brauner began his opera conducting career at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen.
He has conducted many productions and premieres. Ponchielli’ s La Gioconda, Mozart’s
Don Giovanni, Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans, Rossini’s Il Turco di Italia, Dvořák's
Rusalka and Jacobin, Puccini’s Turandot, Gounod’s Faust, Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur,
Jarre’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and many others.
At the Prague State Opera, he debuted conducting Verdi’s Othello. He has since
conducted numerous operas including Massenet's Don Quijote, Rossini’s The Barber of
Seville, Puccini’s La Bohéme, Tosca, Turandot , Verdi’s Nabucco, La Traviata, Bizet’s
Carmen, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, along with a concert performance of Mignon by
Ambrois Thomas, and Giselle by Adam.
At the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, he has conducted Verdi’s Nabucco
and Ernani, Puccini’s Il Trittico, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Goundo’s Romeo and Juliet,
Thomas’s Hamlet or Janáček’s Kátá Kabanova.
In 2019 he had new productions at the Slovak National Theatre with Hoffman’s Les
Comptes de Hoffmann.
Tomas Brauner has appeared as a guest conductor at significant international festivals
such as the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch Parten-Kirchen where he has
performed Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He has also appeared at the Bad Kissingen International Music Festival, Prague Spring
International Music Festival, Dvořák Prague International Festival Smetana ́s Litomyšl
International Opera Festival, and at the International Music Festival Český Krumlov.
His recording of the complete cello works by Bohuslav Martinů for the Dabringhaus und
Grimm label won Classic Prague Awards 2017.
Tomáš Brauner ́s discography including recordings - Karel Husa - Music for Prague
(Supraphon), Dvořák ́s Slavonic Rhapsodies (Arco Diva) and for label of Czech Radio
Radioservis Complete iano Concertos by Bohuslav Martinů and Thaikovsky ́s Manfred
and Fatum.
Tomáš Brauner studied the oboe and conducting at the Prague State Conservatory. He
graduated from the Conducting the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Prof.
Radomil Eliška. He continued his conducting studies at the Universität für Musik und
darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Prof. Uroš Lajovič. In 2017 Tomáš Brauner received
the Art Prize of the City of Pilsen for outstanding artistic contribution.