His discipline and musical culture allow him to approach repertoire conducting with meticulousness and coherence, in a style that unfolds with ease, flexibility, and elegance. Beginning with the 2025–2026 season, he will serve as Associate Conductor of the Choir of St. Andrew and St. Paul Church, as well as Guest Professor at Université Laval.
Upon graduating from the Conservatoire, Thomas held assistant conductor positions with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. The beginning of his career was marked by notable collaborations. Initially assistant to Music Director Kent Nagano, he also worked with guest conductors Bernard Labadie, Hannu Lintu, Cristian Măcelaru, Susanna Mälkki, Rafael Payare, and François-Xavier Roth. Since the start of his career, Thomas has conducted more than fifty concerts with the OSM.
In opera, he has already collaborated on numerous productions. He notably conducted two premieres in 2022 and 2023: Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d’été by Christian Thomas, based on the play by Québec writer Michel Tremblay, and Yourcenar – Une île de passions by Éric Champagne, both co-productions of the Festival d’opéra de Québec, Opéra de Montréal, and Les Violons du Roy. In the summer of 2024, he conducted La Vie parisienne at the Festival d’opéra de Québec. He also participated as assistant conductor in productions of Verdi’s Il Trovatore and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Opéra de Montréal, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman at the Festival d’opéra de Québec, and Bizet’s Carmen at the Bonn Theater in Germany.
In symphonic concerts, Thomas has conducted major Québec and Canadian orchestras such as Les Violons du Roy and the Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as the symphony orchestras of L’Agora, Laval, Montréal, Newfoundland, Québec, Rimouski, Saguenay, Sherbrooke, Hamilton, and Kitchener-Waterloo. He has also conducted the National Theatre Orchestra of Prague in the Czech Republic. In popular concerts, he conducted Alexandra Stréliski’s very first symphonic concert with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal as part of the Montreal Jazz Festival, broadcast on Radio-Canada television.
In the summer of 2025, he returned to the Orford Music Festival with Les Violons du Roy for a third consecutive year.
Thomas is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he studied cello with Carole Sirois and orchestral conducting with Jacques Lacombe. In 2022, he received the very first Joseph-Rouleau Prize, awarded by the Fondation du Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec, in recognition of the promising beginnings of his career.
