Half a century ago, in the fall of 1969, Michael Tilson Thomas — a promising, young conductor and scion of Yiddish theater royalty — lifted his baton for his New York debut with the Boston ...

After three years since announcing his initial diagnosis, San Francisco Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas’ brain tumor has returned, forcing the longtime conductor to ...

Michael Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California and was the grandson of noted Yiddish theatre stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky. He studied piano and composition and conducting at the ...

Tilson Thomas will share the podium on this program with Teddy Abrams and Edwin Outwater, two conductors with whom he shares deep, personal ties. Abrams, a longtime mentee of Michael Tilson Thomas ...

Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is leading some of his final concerts. MTT, as he's long been known, has been battling brain cancer for the last four years. His cancer returned earlier ...

At age 77, he is focusing his energies equally on conducting and composing. Michael Tilson Thomas is the Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the London ...

In March of 2022, Michael Tilson Thomas announced that he was stepping down as artistic director of the New World Symphony, the orchestral academy he co-founded in 1987. Months earlier ...