BIOGRAPHY

Having been recognised as a conductor who is eager to step beyond traditional musical boundaries, Anthony is now in frequent demand across Europe as a conductor able to work in a range of diverse musical styles and genres. His list of innovative collaborators is now lengthy, and includes artists and musicians such as singer-songwriters Antony Hegarty (Antony & The Johnsons) and David Byrne (Talking Heads), pianist Joanna MacGregor, jazz trumpeter Matthias Schriefl, bass player Greg Cohen, saxophonist Jean-Yves Fourmeau, artist/writer Tamarin Norwood, composer Tarik O'Regan and the extraordinarily talented jazz artist Django Bates; a relationship which began in 2004 at the Traumzeit festival in Germany with the Duisburger Philharmoniker. During successful return visits to the Duisburger Philharmoniker, Anthony conducted the launch concert of the Ruhrtriennale festival (2006) and the grand finale of the Extraschicht festival (2009) and has been invited to continue his work with the orchestra. Anthony has also conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Greek National Opera, Heritage Orchestra, South Bank Sinfonia and the Santa Clarita Valley Symphony (Los Angeles); he has made several recordings and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Lyric FM, West German Radio (WDR3) and Weave Records; and he currently holds Musical Director/Conductor positions with Antony & the Johnsons, Avenue A Ensemble, Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy Sinfonia, City University Symphony Orchestra, Colne Philharmonic Orchestra and is in increasing demand as a guest conductor across the UK and Europe.

In recent years, Anthony has also been a busy orchestrator in the film & TV industry, working particularly closely with composers Michael Price and David Arnold, and his orchestrations can be heard in the BAFTA winning Sherlock series for the BBC (Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Sean Connery), Wild Target (Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint), Horrid Henry (Richard E. Grant, Angelica Houston), Cheerful Weather for the Wedding and Kula Shaker frontman, Crispian Mills' forthcoming directorial debut A Fantastic Fear of Everything (Simon Pegg). Anthony is co-founder of the innovative Avenue A Ensemble, for which he also composes and arranges, whose debut album Rocking Horses was released to great acclaim in 2009 (available on iTunes and Spotify).

As a composer, trumpeter and pianist, Anthony studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Junior Academy until he was 18. He completed his undergraduate degree in music at the University of Durham (1993-1996) specialising in composition, and continued his studies in orchestral conducting as a scholar at the Royal College of Music, London (1997-1999). Anthony studied with John Carewe, Jorma Panula, Edwin Roxburgh, Gerhard Markson and Neil Thomson, and has worked as assistant conductor to Lorin Maazel, Daniele Gatti, Andrea Quinn and Martin André. After winning the August Manns prize for conducting two years consecutively, he became the first ever winner of the Norman Del Mar Conducting Prize in 1999 and was a Western European finalist of the Maazel/Vilar International Conducting Competition in February 2002.

Education work plays an important part of Anthony's musical life; alongside the Bar 1 creative workshops he leads with the Avenue A Ensemble, he also coaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy and is a frequent guest teacher of orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and City University, London.