Thomas Toppler

Thomas Toppler

As a musician, Thomas Toppler has worked with well-known orchestras, including the Wiener Symphoniker, Concentus Musicus Wien, Volksoper Wien and is a founding member of “The Erlkings”. The ensemble surprises with its charming, radical and respectful arrangement and English adaptation of German art songs such as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Ludwig von Beethoven and has performed on many famous stages such as Wigmore Hall London, Konzerthaus Berlin, Wiener Konzerthaus, Allegro Vivo , Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, convince the audience and critics. His London-based theater company Ship of Fools, in which he works as a director, has been successfully conducting its productions through Great Britain since 2014. As a director, he oversaw programs for music groups such as Da Blechhaufn, Louie’s Cage Percussion, The Hankebrothers, Mozartwochen 2019 and directs commercials for, for example, Die Gruft and Das Neunerhaus. Thomas Toppler also teaches acting at the School of Theater in Vienna, the workshop Let’s Play at the ISA – International Summer Academy of the MDW in Reichenau / Rax, the European Chamber Music Academy ECMA in Grafenegg, the Young Masters program of the MDW, the EEEmerging -Emerging European Ensembles, and at the Leonard Bernstein Institute of the MDW. Further teaching activity at the start-up center of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and MDW Vienna in the field of pitching.