Thomas Wilkins

Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in selections from Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts,” “New World A-Coming,” with pianist Gerald Clayton, and more.

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Thomas Wilkins leads the BSO at Tanglewood, with music by Duke Ellington, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Jeff Midkiff is the soloist in his own Mandolin Concerto "From the Blue Ridge."

The BSO's next season at Symphony Hall is anchored by Composer Chair Carlos Simon, major undertakings in works by Mahler, Beethoven, and Shostakovich with Music Director Andris Nelsons, and much, much more.

Airing on GBH 2 on October 27, "Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey" is an hour-long film that documents Wilkins’s experience as a Black conductor and his larger impact on the musical world.

In the second of three programs of the Boston Symphony’s exploration of music centered on social conversation and transformation, Thomas Wilkins conducts Margaret Bonds’ tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, and Anthony McGill is the soloist in Anthony Davis’s You Have the Right to Remain Silent.

World-class conductors and guest artists bring dynamic performances to the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the green hills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

The celebrated electric bassist is the soloist in his own concerto, "La Lección Tres," and the BSO's Thomas Wilkins conducts music from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha" and Duke Ellington’s "The River."

The BSO has announced ambitious plans for the coming concert season, featuring a complete Beethoven symphony cycle, works by 14 composers of our time, and…

Wilkins, who has served as the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth and Family Concerts Conductor since 2011, will be expanding his responsibilities to broaden…

Sunday, May 26, 20197:00 PMOn WCRB In Concert with the Boston Pops, Thomas Wilkins leads "America's Orchestra" in a tribute to the legendary Arthur…