Tomas Djupsjöbacka

Tomas Djupsjöbacka is a Finnish conductor and cellist with a strong chamber music background and a growing international profile. He is the founding cellist of the acclaimed string quartet Meta4 and a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

He made his conducting debut with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in 2013 and has since conducted most of the Finnish orchestras, including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Oulu Sinfonia and Sinfonia Lahti.

Internationally, he has appeared with orchestras such as the Gävle and Swedish Radio Symphony orchestras and the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, with whom he is a regular guest conductor.

The musicians of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra appointed him their first-ever Principal Guest Conductor, a post he held from 2019 to 2022. From 2021 to 2024, he served as Chief Conductor of the Vaasa City Orchestra. The quartet Meta4 was also the Principal Guest of the Jyväskylä Sinfonia from 2022 to 2024.

Tomas Djupsjöbacka studied conducting privately with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He completed his formal conducting studies at the Sibelius Academy in 2017 and has participated in masterclasses with Jorma Panula.

Arweinydd

Arweinydd a sielydd o’r Ffindir yw Tomas Djupsjöbacka a chanddo gefndir cryf mewn cerddoriaeth siambr, a phroffil rhyngwladol cynyddol. Fel chwaraewr soddgrwth fe sefydlodd bedwarawd llinynnol gwych Meta4 ac mae’n aelod o Gerddorfa Siambr Ewrop.

Gwnaeth ei ymddangosiad cyntaf fel arweinydd gyda Cherddorfa Siambr Ostrobothnian yn 2013 ac ers hynny mae wedi arwain y rhan fwyaf o gerddorfeydd y Ffindir, gan gynnwys Cerddorfa Symffoni Radio’r Ffindir, Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig Helsinki, Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig Turku, Oulu Sinfonia a Sinfonia Lahti.

Yn rhyngwladol, mae wedi ymddangos gyda cherddorfeydd Symffoni Gävle a Radio Sweden a chyda Cherddorfa Siambr Norwy, lle mae’n arweinydd gwadd rheolaidd.

Cafodd ei benodi gan gerddorion Cerddorfa Siambr Lapland yn Brif Arweinydd Gwadd cyntaf erioed arnynt, swydd a ddaliodd rhwng 2019 a 2022. Rhwng 2021 a 2024, gwasanaethodd fel Prif Arweinydd Cerddorfa Dinas Vaasa. Roedd y pedwarawd Meta4 hefyd yn Brif Westai gyda Jyväskylä Sinfonia rhwng 2022 a 2024.

Astudiodd Tomas Djupsjöbacka grefft arweinydd yn breifat gyda Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Cwblhaodd ei astudiaethau arwain ffurfiol yn Academi Sibelius yn 2017 ac mae wedi cymryd rhan mewn dosbarthiadau meistr gyda Jorma Panula.