# Thomas Fey

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'''Thomas Fey''' (born 9 November 1960) is a [German](/source/Germans) orchestral [conductor](/source/Conducting).

At the [University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Musik_und_Darstellende_Kunst_Mannheim) he studied music and conducting and at the [Salzburg Mozarteum](/source/Salzburg_Mozarteum) studied [historically informed performance](/source/historically_informed_performance) practice with [Nikolaus Harnoncourt](/source/Nikolaus_Harnoncourt). He also attended master classes with [Leonard Bernstein](/source/Leonard_Bernstein) at the [Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival](/source/Schleswig-Holstein_Music_Festival). In 1985 while still a student he founded the Heidelberger Motetenchor and in 1987 the Schlierbach Chamber Orchestra, which in 1993 became the Heidelberger Sinfoniker (Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra) giving their inaugural concert on January 1, 1994. With the latter group, he began recording the complete symphonies of [Joseph Haydn](/source/Joseph_Haydn) for the [Hänssler Classic](/source/H%C3%A4nssler_Classic) label.

In 2003 he founded the [original instruments](/source/original_instruments) Ensemble La Passione and the Mozart Mannheim Orchestra.

In October 2014 Fey suffered a "severe [traumatic brain injury](/source/traumatic_brain_injury)".<ref name="RMZ">{{cite news | url=https://www.rnz.de/kultur-tipps/kultur-regional_artikel,-Kultur-Regional-Heidelberger-Sinfoniker-sind-in-ihrer-Existenz-gefaehrdet-_arid,76721.html | title=Heidelberger Sinfoniker sind in ihrer Existenz gefährdet (in German) | work=Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung | author=Matthias Roth | date=17 February 2015 | accessdate=8 April 2018}}</ref> It was hoped that Fey would recover and be well enough to rejoin the orchestra at the beginning of 2016.<ref name="RMZ"/> However it was unclear whether he would return to conducting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas Fey, Dirigent (in German)|url=http://heidelberger-sinfoniker.de/der-dirigent-thomas-fey.html|publisher=Heidelberger Sinfoniker|accessdate=8 April 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/thomas-fey-q134869/biography/ All Music biography by Robert Cummings]

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