Thomas Jung is working internationally as a concert conductor and has also been in great demand for dance theatre productions in recent years: in 2025 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia building on his earlier appointment in 2018 as the inaugural Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow with both Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House London, Covent Garden. He also conducts for English National Ballet, Semperoper Ballet Dresden, Dutch National Ballet; and he conducted the 2024 anniversary production of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in London. For Birmingham Royal Ballet, he was the leading Conductor for the 2022 productions of Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem‹ choreographed as Forgotten Land by Jiří Kylián, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, choreographed by Uwe Scholz, and opened the company’s Nutcracker productions in 2023 and 2024. In winter 2025 he will also conduct The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Furthermore Thomas conducted the world premieres of Sense of Time (Didy Veldman, music by Gabriel Prokofiev, 2019), Hotel(Morgann Runacre-Temple, music by Mikael Karlsson, 2022) and In Flux (Juanjo Arquez, music by Thomas van Dun, 2025).

In the concert hall, Thomas Jung has been working with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, the Gelders Orchestra, the Orkest van het Oosten, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, and the Tianjin Grand Opera Symphony Orchestra China, amongst others. In 2024, he recorded Marcel Tyberg's Second Symphony‹with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for Bayerischer Rundfunk.

After meeting Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival in 2013, Thomas Jung had the opportunity to work closely with him on several occasions as an assistant and cover conductor. Experiencing Bernard Haitink's artistic and personal integrity at work was of great importance to him. As an assistant conductor he has also been working with Jakub Hrůša (Bamberger Symphoniker), Semyon Bychkov and Jukka-Pekka Saraste (WDR Symphony Orchestra), as well as Markus Stenz and Francois-Xavier Roth (Gürzenich Orchestra). Furthermore he was Zander Fellow and Assistant Conductor of both the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

Having a vivid interest for the interactions between all forms of art, Thomas initiated a collaboration with composer and artist Samson Young. Young's ongoing project of so called Muted Situations, which challenges hearing expectations of any kind, inspired Thomas to bring it to the concert hall. In the award-winning Muted Situation #22, Thomas conducted a toneless orchestra performing the 5th Symphony of Tchaikovsky — a concert performance like no other. As an installation the work has been shown in museums all over the world and was obtained by Tate Modern in 2025.

Thomas Jung is second prize winner of the 2020 international Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition and 2017 recipient of the Eugen-Jochum-Prize for Young Conductors. He received the Culture Prize of the Philippas Engel Foundation for his »social and cultural commitment to music, with music and through music« and was awarded first price and special price ›Best Performance‹ in the German Orchestra Competition. Thomas Jung studied at the Cologne Academy of Music and at King's College Cambridge. His conducting teachers were Volker Wangenheim and Colin Metters. Thomas attended masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, Jaap van Zweden, and Jorma Panula.

Thomas Jung was supported by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, DEY Foundation, Music Foundation of the Kreissparkasse, Richard Wagner Association Bayreuth and Inspiratum VZW Belgium.