Awarded 2nd Prize in the 2011 biennial Blue Danube Musik Impresario (Vienna) International Opera Conducting Competition, hosted this year by the Bulgarian State Opera (Burgas), Anthony has established an international reputation for conducting with tremendous passion born of a profound knowledge and understanding of the repertoire.

Anthony works extensively as a freelance conductor, arranger and orchestrator. He made his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011 and conducted the British Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of popular classical works, as part of the 2009 London Tower Music Festival. Anthony will conduct at the National Theatre of Opera & Ballet Sarajevo and the Bulgarian State Opera Ruse during the 2011/2012 season. In January 2012 he will conduct an Opera Gala concert at the Opera House in Almaty (Kazakhstan) with the internationally renown Italian Tenor, Fabio Armiliato.

Anthony studied conducting, composition, piano and voice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Australia) and since 1993 has amassed a prodigious variety of operatic and musical theatre credits as a Music Director, Conductor, Chorus Master, Language Coach, Vocal Coach and Accompanist.

Credits include La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, La Cenerentola, The Magic Flute, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Little Mermaid, The Moonrakers Opera and The Happy Prince.

As Music Director his credits include South Pacific, Blood Brothers, Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera, A Grand Night For Singing, Chess, CATS, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Bye Bye Birdie, The Lion King (London’s West End, Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai) and most recently the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.