Theo Thorsson is a Swedish–Mexican composer–conductor based in Vienna, whose work develops systems of sound and thought at the intersection of musical structure, philosophical inquiry, and interpretive responsibility. For Thorsson, composition and conducting are not separate professions but reciprocal modes of shaping time, risk, and form, approaches that privilege necessity over convention and treat musical material as structural rather than ornamental.
Recent projects include the original soundtrack for the Mexican feature film
“Despiértame” (IMCINE, PROCINE) and a recording of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”
overture with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Earlier commissions include the “Miniatur für Oboe & Streicher” for Issey Miyake Parfums. Across his output, Thorsson pursues compositional methods that extend beyond style, seeking clarity through complexity and coherence through contradiction.
Professionally, he has served as Inspizient (stage manager) at the Wiener Konzerthaus (2022–2024), chorus master of the Gesangverein der Steirer in Wien, and in multiple roles at the Philharmonie der Universität Wien. In Mexico City, he assisted the executive director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, gaining early exposure to institutional infrastructures that continue to inform his practice. His development was shaped in part by informal lessons with Christoph Eschenbach.
Thorsson’s intellectual foundation is articulated in his book Metaphysics of
Contradiction, which reframes interpretation as a paradoxical act—balancing fidelity and intervention, freedom and necessity. His thinking shapes his conducting, where analytical rigor meets ethical responsibility: interpretation is not indulgence, but an intervention grounded in the architecture of the score.
Although centered on music, his work extends into visual media—illustration, digital art, and video, that echo the same structural preoccupations. A compressed multilingual profile (Swedish–Spanish native, fluent in German and English, proficient in French and
Italian) reflects his commitment to cross-cultural resonance rather than stylistic borders.
At its core, Thorsson’s work seeks clarity within complexity and substance over spectacle, embracing contradiction not as a problem to be solved but as the very condition of meaningful creation.
