In September 2012 Lund retired as a Principal Dancer to become the head master of The Royal Danish School of Ballet He held that position until June 2022.
Lund is a Bournonville dancer whose roles have included James in La Sylphide, Gennaro in Napoli, Carelis and Geert in The Kermesse in Bruges, the title role in Abdallah, the Ballet Master in Le Conservatoire, the Pas de Deux of The Flower Festival in Genzano, Otto in The King's Volunteers on Amager, Pas de Sept in A Folk Tale, Jockey Dance and Wilhelm Tell.
Other important roles has included Prince in Peter Martins' "Swan Lake", the Prince in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, Puck in John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mercutio and Benvolio in John Neumeier's Romeo and Juliet, Harald Lander's ballets Études and Festpolonaisen, Bim in Maurice Béjart's Gaité Parisienne; King Christian VII in Flemming Flindt's Caroline Mathilde, the Teacher in Flindt's "The Lesson", Jerome Robbins’ Tarantella and Fancy Free, George Balanchine's Symphony in C (3rd movement) and Jewels (2nd movement, Rubies), Peter Martins' Zakouski and as Lensky in Onegin.
In 2005 Lund was the artistic director of Principals and Soloists of the Royal Danish Ballet's critically acclaimed performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England.
When the Royal Danish Ballet in 2005 released the documentation of the six Bournonville Schools on DVD Thomas Lund was involved in the project right from the beginning both as an instructor and as a dancer.
(Translation by Jane Simpson) To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of August Bournonville, the Danish Postal Service - Post Danmark - issuied on 4 May 2005 two commemorative postage stamps.