Thomas Fey

Thomas Fey ( born November 9, 1960) is a German conductor and pianist.

Fey studied piano and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, he received his further training as a conductor, inter alia, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Leonard Bernstein.

Already as a student he founded the Heidelberg Motettenchor (1985) and the Schlierbacher chamber orchestra ( 1987), emerged from the 1993 Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor of these ensembles, he performed in many European countries and in North and South America and founded as the reputation of his ensemble as one of the leading " historically " oriented orchestra of the present. The focus of his repertoire are the works of the Baroque, the Viennese Classical and early German Romanticism. Soloists such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Nelson Freire, Bernd Glemser, Cyprien Katsaris, Fazil Say, Gerrit Zitterbart and Thomas Zehetmair concerts regularly with Fey and the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1991, Fey hosted with the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra held a annual festival. The "Heidelberg Mozart weeks " followed from 2003, the artistic and programmatic broader Music Festival LA PASSIONE. In 2003, Fey also founded the "Mannheim Mozart Orchestra ", which was held stage debut in Mozart's 250th birthday on 27 January 2006. With this orchestra, the conductor maintains particularly the works of Mozart's nearly forgotten wrongfully fellow artists such as Ignaz Wood Bauer, Antonio Salieri or Süssmayr. 2008 and 2010 published recordings with largely unknown overtures, stage and ballet music of Salieri.

Feys appearing in the prestigious Haenssler Verlag CD recordings - including now over 20 symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn - were unanimously hailed by the press and awarded over again. The recording of Beethoven's Fourth and Sixth Symphonies received a nomination for the " Cannes Classical Award 2003". Fey's second Salieri album was nominated in December 2010 for a Grammy Award.