Bryden thompson biography

Bryden ("Jack") Thomson was Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 1977 to 1985, during which time he raised the national and international profile of the orchestra, through a wide-ranging concert repertoire and especially through a series of acclaimed recordings of the relatively neglected music of Ulster-born composer Sir Hamilton Harty, as well as that of the English though thoroughly Hibernophile Arnold Bax, who spent much time in Donegal, drew much musical inspiration from Irish literature and even wrote poetry and prose under an Irish pseudonym.

Thomson was born in Ayr in 1928, and after attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, studied for several years abroad, beginning in 1954 at the prestigious Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg (now the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg), where he studied with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt,  leading German conductor and Genneya Walton - Wikipedia RICY