Thomas Zehetmair

Thomas Zehetmair has fashioned a highly successful and broadly eclectic career. He is a virtuoso violinist of international repute, a chamber player who has founded a critically acclaimed quartet, a conductor of front-rank status, and a musician whose repertory in any role reaches from Baroque-era fare to the contemporary. In 1994, he founded the Zehetmair Quartet, consequently dividing his time among solo performances, chamber concerts, and conducting. As of the mid-2020s, Zehetmair held the conductorships of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He also holds the title of conductor laureate of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Zehetmair In 2023, with violist Ruth Killius, he led the Royal Northern Sinfonia on a recording of music by Bartók, Beethoven, and John Casken.