Tomas Netopil studied violin and conducting in his native Czech republic as well as at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with the famous Prof. Jorma Panula, who has taught many prominent conductors. In 2002 he won the 1^st Sir Georg Solti Conductors Competition at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, where the jury included Michael Gielen, Gary Bertini, Sylvain Cambreling and Paolo Carignani.

After his debut at the Prague Spring Festival, he conducted Dvorak´s Stabat Mater at the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, the Kongresshaus Innsbruck and the Stefaniensaal Graz. He also conducted Janacek´s Cunning Little Vixenat the Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla and collaborated with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, the Janacek Philharmonic and the Talich Chamber Orchestra.

Last season, Tomas Netopil debuted at the Deutschen Oper Berlin and collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lille, and the Orchestre National de Montpellier. In the Mozart-year Tomas Netopil made his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in a Teatro La Fenice Venezia production of Lucio Silla and conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatsorchester Stuttgart and Staatskapelle Weimar. Furthermore, he was the music director of three important opera-productions in Italy.

He conducted concerts at the Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa (Mozart-Cycle), the Teatro Regio Parma, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.

After his debut at the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and a concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden, in the 2007/08 season 32-year-old conductor Tomas Netopil will make his debut in concert with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Genève, Orchestre National du Capitole Toulouse,Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo,BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Flandern. He will also make debut at the Bayerischen Staatsoper Munich with a new production of Busoni’s Doktor Faust for the Münchner Opernfestspiele and conducted the new opera production of Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro at the Palau de la Musica Valencia with which he had previously triumphed at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden.