Stay warm out there! 📷 MTT in Buffalo in the 1970s

On February 4, 1988, MTT led the @nwsymphony in its inaugural concert at the Gusman Cultural Center in downtown Miami. The New World Symphony moved into the Lincoln Theatre in 1989. More about MTT & the New World Symphony 👉 michaeltilsonthomas.com/proj….

MTT's delightful composition "Lope," premiered by the New World Symphony on February 2, 2018, was "inspired by a lifetime of living with dogs." 🎶 Listen and see the score ▶️ michaeltilsonthomas.com/comp…

Happy #Grammys Day! In 2000, MTT and the @SFSymphony's Stravinsky recording featuring Le Sacre du printemps, The Firebird, and Perséphone won three awards: Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album. 🎧 🎶 michaeltilsonthomas.com/reco…

I often feel as if I have a personal relationship with the composers whose music I play, many of whom are no longer living. [...] As I play over their scores, it is as if I can hear them speaking through the phrases, asking, ‘Can you hear me? Do you understand?’

MTT: conductor, composer, pianist, and oboist!

💙 MTT Pro Tip: always keep a keyboard in the kitchen! __ "Les Feuilles Mortes" with Jacques Pépin

Celebrating Morton Feldman on what would've been his 100th birthday. 💫 🎧 lnk.to/copticlight

For MTT's 81st birthday, singer Ben Jones and pianist John Wilson have recorded two new MTT songs! This one is "Answered Prayers." Listen to both songs on MTT's beautiful new website ▶️ michaeltilsonthomas.com/comp…

Happiest of birthdays to the one and only @yoyoma! ___ #classicalmusic

From MTT's address to graduates at the @JuilliardSchool 2022 Commencement. __ 📖 michaeltilsonthomas.com/writ…

Wishing @nwsymphony & Artistic Director Stéphane Denève a happy opening weekend! 🎉 Here's a little throwback to the early days in Miami. Since its co-founding in 1987 by MTT and Lin and Ted Arison, NWS has helped launch the careers of nearly 1,300 alumni. bit.ly/4gVfv8H

MTT at John Crown's studio, 1966. MTT studied piano with Crown during his time at USC. ___ Visit the timeline on MTT's new website ✨ michaeltilsonthomas.com/mttt…

MTT with soprano Jessye Norman, born on this day in 1945. MTT and Jessye collaborated many times over nearly 50 years, including a memorable performance of John Cage's Song Books as part of the @sfsymphony's American Mavericks Festival. 📷 MTT Collection

For the truth is life is good. 🎧 🎶 lnk.to/ForLenny ___ “‘Grace’ was written in 1988 for Leonard Bernstein’s 70th birthday celebration at Tanglewood. It meant a lot to me that Lenny loved it.” —MTT __ 📷 Bob Millard

MTT’s paternal grandparents, Boris & Bessie Thomashefsky, immigrated to the US from Ukraine c. 1880. They were founding members of the American Yiddish theater and 2 of its biggest stars. Pictured here on their wedding day, 1889. Go to the timeline 👉 michaeltilsonthomas.com/mttt…

“I don’t think that’s what Beethoven meant…” This rare footage of MTT with his first conducting teacher, Ingolf Dahl, is from Terry Sanders’s charming 1970 documentary “To Be a Conductor.” Watch the full film on MTT’s new archival website 👉 michaeltilsonthomas.com/proj…

Wonderful to see #PaulSimon and his great musicians at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Such a special artist.

My thanks to everyone at the @nwsymphony and to the wonderful Miami audiences who made last weekend’s performances so special. 📷 Alex Markow

Happy birthday @YujaWang 💙 💙 💙