Winner of the Alexander Gibson Youth Conductor’s Award in 2000, Tom Seligman studied with Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Scottish Academy after his studies at Cambridge University. He has right acclaimed productions of The Rake’s Progress and The Beggar’s Opera in Edinburgh, and was Joseph Swensen’s assistant at the Salzburg Festival and BBC Proms, London. In recent months he has worked with Grange Park Opera and the London Sinfonietta. He was the music director of the Cheltenham Festival Academy for the inaugural year, and debuted on BBC Radio 3 as director of the Hebrides Ensemble at the St Magnus Festival, Orkney. Tom Seligman was appointed conductor of the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra in September 2005.