Thomas Jacob Bergersen (født 1980 i Trondheim) er en norsk komponist og multi-instrumentalist. Han albumdebuterte med Illusions i 2011, og har siden utgitt en rekke album og singler. Bergersens komposisjoner fremføres også av andre, blant annet The Bands of HM Royal Marines. Hans musikk er blant verdens mest strømmede i kategorien classical crossover, og strømmes per oktober 2023 over to millioner ganger i måneden på Spotify.[1]
Bergersen spiller piano, fiolin, trompet og diverse andre instrumenter.[5]
Bergersen gjennomførte i 2022 og 2023 Europa-turneer. Sammen med fullt symfoniorkester og andre artister fremførte han egne komposisjoner i en rekke storbyer. Tysk presse ga konsertene i Berlin, München[6] og Düsseldorf[7] svært god kritikk. I 2023 opptrådte han også for et publikum på 50.000 under festivalen Wacken Open Air.[8]
^abWright, Chris (6. mai 2016). «Meet Thomas Bergersen — Master of Powerful, Epic Music». Gear Patrol (på engelsk). Besøkt 1. november 2023. «You have heard Thomas Bergersen’s music. Just a sliver of it, but that was enough. Enough to give you goosebumps. Enough to understand the intensity of a vast space odyssey to save the human race. Enough to convince you to spend an evening and $14 on a film that grossed $675 million worldwide. | That music you heard was the song “Final Frontier,” featured prominently in Interstellar‘s third and final trailer, which has 16 million views on Youtube. It backs — and helps create, really — two and a half minutes of intense emotion, encapsulating Christopher Nolan’s three-hour space epic in one hundredth of the time.»
^abBentley, David (1. juli 2020). «Featured Artist – Thomas Bergersen, Norwegian composer». nordicmusicreview (på engelsk). Besøkt 1. november 2023. «The other is Norway’s Thomas Bergersen, another major writer of film music and a square-jawed broad-shouldered hulk of a bloke who looks like he should be an ice hockey player. You haven’theard of him? Well, if you’ve seen any of Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Twilight Saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, The Mummy, The Dark Knight, Tron: Legacy (amongst hundreds of others) down at your local multiplex then you’ve certainly heard him. | This is a good time to be bringing him to your attention. Since 2010 he’s released a dozen albums under the banner of Two Steps from Hell, a collaboration with the Briton Nick Phoenix, who specialises in film trailer music. Separately, there have been four solo albums. He’s prolific.»
^Nergaard, Knut (21. april 2023). «Thomas Bergersen». Store norske leksikon (på norsk). Besøkt 4. juli 2023.
^abThomas Bergersen. «Biography». thomasbergersen.com (på engelsk). Besøkt 1. november 2023.
^«Interview: Thomas Bergersen, Composer». STARBURST Magazine (på engelsk). 2012. Besøkt 1. november 2023. «When did you meet Nick Phoenix and how long did it take for Two Steps from Hell to happen?»