Tomáš Netopil is Principal Guest Conductor with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with whom, in addition to concerts at the Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, he performs with regularly on tour. In 2022/23 Tomáš Netopil celebrated his tenth and final season as General Music Director of Aalto Musiktheater and Philharmonie Essen. Opera productions in the 2023/24 season include Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Prague National Theatre as well as concerts with Frankfurt Opera Orchestra and the orchestra of the Tyrolean Regional Theater. Other symphonic engagements include concerts with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and returns to Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. Recent and future engagements in the USA include Naples Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and appearances at the Aspen Festival. In Summer 2018, Tomáš Netopil created the International Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž. From 2008 – 2012 Tomáš Netopil held the position of Music Director of the Prague National Theatre. He studied violin and conducting in his native Czech Republic, as well as at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under the guidance of Professor Jorma Panula. In 2002, he won the first Sir Georg Solti Conductors Competition at the Alte Oper Frankfurt.