Tobias Ringborg has established himself as a conductor, soloist and chamber musician in a short time. His career began in 1994 when he won the prestigious Soloist prize. In the same year, he took a soloist diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where Professor Harald Thedéen was his teacher and mentor. The violin studies were then completed at The Juilliard School in New York.
As a violin soloist, Tobias Ringborg has visited all Swedish symphony and chamber orchestras and he has collaborated with conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Okko Kamu, Sakari Oramo and Daniel Harding. Foreign merits include the first prize in the Concours International de Musique de Chimay in Belgium as well as recitals and orchestral concerts all over Europe and in the USA.
He is an active champion of Swedish music, and has recorded around twenty records of chamber music and violin concertos by mainly Swedish composers. He still has an active career as a chamber musician, and plays on a violin by Niccolò Gagliano, lent by the Järnåker Foundation.
In 2000, Tobias Ringborg began a career as a conductor, when he won a conducting competition in Helsingborg, and has since appeared with all Swedish and many Scandinavian orchestras, often in the dual role of soloist and conductor.
He has a lifelong passion for opera and debuted in 2001 as an opera conductor at Folkoperan with Verdi's La traviata. In 2002 he joined Malmö Opera, where he a. conducted Mozart's Don Giovanni, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Verdi's Otello.
At the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, he debuted in 2001 with Puccini's La bohème. Since then, he has been closely connected there and has led performances by, among others, a. Bizet's Carmen, Donizetti's Elisire d'amore, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Tosca and Turandot, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte and Verdi's Don Carlos and Rigoletto.
He has specialized in Italian, French and Mozart repertoire, and his career includes Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Turandot (broadcast in SVT 2005) at the Norrland Opera, Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Värmland Opera (directed by Peter Konwitschny), Puccini's La fanciulla del West and Mozart's Idomeneo in Malmö, Turandot and L'elisire d'amore at the Gothenburg Opera, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and J Strauss' Die Flerdermaus at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, as well as Gounod's Faust, Idomeneo and Don Giovanni at the Jutland Opera in Denmark. In 2008 he made his German debut, La traviata at Oper Leipzig, and in 2009 he made his British opera debut at Scottish Opera, with Così fan tutte (directed by David McVicar), where he has also conducted Rigoletto. At English Opera North he has conducted La bohème, Don Giovanni and Verdi's Macbeth. In 2013 he conducted Puccini's Madame Butterfly at New Zealand Opera.
Tobias Ringborg has explored the symphonic repertoire with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (among others at the Nobel Prize ceremony in December 2011), the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the symphony orchestras in Gothenburg, Malmö, Helsingborg, Norrköping (among others the orchestra's 100th anniversary in 2012 with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9), Århus, Odense and Kristiansand, as well as Zealand/Tivoli Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he made his London debut, with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, both as soloist and conductor.
In 2010 he also recorded his first opera on disc – the bel canto opera Cristina Regina di Svezia, a masterpiece from 1849 by Jacopo Foroni, with chorus and orchestra from the Gothenburg Opera (Sterling).
The 2014/2015 season included Rossini's Count Ory at Malmö Opera, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Norrland Opera, Verdi's Troubadour at Scottish Opera as well as concerts and recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Århus Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where in 2015 he ends a three-year appointment as chief conductor. Upcoming performances include Turandot at Dalhalla, Tosca at New Zealand Opera, L'elisire d'amore at Opera North and Idomeneo at Garsington Opera.
In 2010, Tobias Ringborg was awarded the Herbert Blomstedt conducting prize by the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2011 he was elected as a member of the same academy.
