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Biography

Thibault Back de Surany has performed throughout Europe as well as in Japan, Taiwan and the United States.

He assisted Hans Christoph Rademann at the Bach Akademie in Stuttgart for the seasons 2018-2019 and 2019-2021 and is currently assistant conductor of the OJEX in Badajoz, Spain.

He has conducted orchestras such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Orchestra Extremadura or the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra.

 

Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival in 2017, Thibault graduated with honors from his Masters studies under Hans Christoph Rademann and Steffen Leißner at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, and had mentors such as Larry Rachleff and Reinhard Göbel. 

 

He assisted conductors such as Nicholas Mc Gegan, Louis Langrée or Ludovic Morlot with orchestras such as the SWR Stuttgart, the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig or the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

He was a semifinalist in the Brescia International Conducting Competition in 2021 and participated in the 2022 Hiroshima International Conducting Competition. He has orchestrated and conducted the original soundtrack to the Netflix produced movies "Paris is Us" and the TribeCa nominated“Années 20”

 

He recently founded the Salzburg based ensemble The Van Swietens, dedicated to lesser known baroque, classical and early romantic repertoire, together with new music written for period instruments.

 

Thibault also plays historical bass instruments and has completed his Viola da Gamba/Violone studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg under Vittorio Ghielmi. He has performed and recorded with the likes of Anton Steck, Dorothee Oberlinger, Alfredo Bernardini or the Orfeo Barockorchester.

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