Thomas Rösner was born in Vienna and conducted his first orchestral concerts at the age of 14. He studied in Vienna, attending masterclasses by Ilya Musin, Myung-Whun Chung and Hans Graf.
It was Fabio Luisi who invited Rösner at a day’s notice to conduct on a tour of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, wich marked the real beginning of his international conducting career. Since then, Rösner has been invited to conduct more than 50 orchestras on four continents, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Vienna, Bamberg and Hamburg Symphony Orchestras, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the MDR Leipzig, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
Since autumn 2005, Thomas Rösner has been the chief conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne in Switzerland. Together with this orchestra, wich specializes in the Classical and early Romantic repertoire, Rösner has embarked on an extensive series of concerts that has seen them invited to the Carinthian Summer Festival, the Feldkirch Festival, the Berne Music Festival, the Basle Martinů Festival and the Murten Classics Festival.
Rösner has also conducted at renowned opera houses: at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the Bregenz Festival, Welsh National Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Edinburgh Festival, the Opéra National de Lyon, and in Rome, Nantes, Marseille, Bordeaux and Tokyo.Rösner has enjoyed a particularly close relationship with the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, where he has conducted four new productions in recent years, including Die Fledermaus and a double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and the Miraculous Madarin by Bartok that was rapturously received.
In the season 2009/10 Rösner conducted the first French production of Hindemith’s Neues vom Tage as well as a highly acclaimed Lucio Silla at Nantes/Angers Opera.
Future projects include new productions of Die Fledermaus at the Welsh National Opera, L’elisir d’amore in Nantes/Angers, Die Lustige Witwe at the Opera National Lorraine in Nancy and La Sonnambula in St Gall as well as concerts with the Wiener Concertverein, with the Israel Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Prag, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, the Orquesta de Extremadura and the Rheinische Philhamonie as well as recordings with the Bamberger Symphoniker.
Rösner’s recordings include Il Trovatore with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on DVD for Opus Arte, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass for Columna Musica and various CDs with the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne for ATMA and Guildmusic. He has also recorded for the BBC, ORF, DRS and Bavarian Radio.