Tom Fetherstonhaugh

Tom Fetherstonhaugh is Artistic Director of Fantasia Orchestra and the Assistant Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. His recent projects include a joint concert with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra, a concert for peace in the Korean Demilitarised Zone, and a return to Ulster Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah.

2023-2024 marks Tom’s second season as Assistant Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and during this year he conducts 39 performances with the orchestra including three weeks in its Main Season series.

Tom has conducted concerto performances with leading soloists including Alena Baeva, Alim Beisembayev, Julian Bliss, Danny Driver, Jess Gillam, Thomas Gould, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Vadym Kholodenko, Tasmin Little, Jennifer Pike, Laura van der Heijden, Steven Osborne, and Maria Włoszczowska.

Tom founded Fantasia Orchestra in 2016, and the orchestra has developed a busy schedule at festivals and venues across the country.

He has been a member of The Grange Festival’s music staff team for the past three years, working on productions of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Verdi’s Macbeth, and the world premiere of David Matthews’s Anna.

Tom started his musical journey with the Suzuki method of violin playing, and was a chorister of Westminster Abbey. He trained with conductor Roland Melia, of Ilya Musin’s school. Tom read music at Merton College, Oxford, where he held organ and academic scholarships and graduated with a First. He then studied conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music where he held the Julien Award. Tom graduated in 2021 with Distinction, winning the Norma Simpson award for his contribution to the Academy and a DipRAM prize for an outstanding final performance.

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