Anthony Marwood
London-based Anthony Marwood is internationally renowned as a soloist and orchestra director. He performs worldwide as soloist with many notable orchestras, and enjoys regular collaborations with Les Violons du Roy in Canada, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the St Louis Symphony in the USA. He has worked with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Thomas Søndergård, David Robertson, Gerard Korsten, Ilan Volkov, Jaime Martin and Douglas Boyd.
Recent highlights include tours with the New Zealand, Sydney, Tasmania and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras as well as his third tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a Wigmore Hall residency, a performance of Berg’s Chamber Concerto with the Aurora Orchestra, a tour with accordionist James Crabb, as well as a return to direct Les Violons du Roy, the celebrated Canadian chamber orchestra which recently named him “Principal Artistic Partner”.
Highlights of the 2015/16 season include soloist/director engagements with the St Louis Symphony, debut performances with the New World Symphony in Miami and A Far Cry in Boston, as well as returning to Canada on several occasions to direct Les Violons Du Roy. He will also appear at a number of Festivals including Sanguine Estate in Australia, Lockenhaus in Austria, Bridgehampton, New York and Lanaudière in Quebec.
Keen to expand the violin concerto repertoire, Anthony regularly collaborates with contemporary composers. Violin concertos that have been composed for him include Thomas Adès “Concentric Paths”, Sally Beamish’s 1995 concerto and Samuel Carl Adams’ concerto, premiered in 2014 in California. The Adès concerto was first performed by him in Berlin and at the BBC Proms, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by the composer.
Recordings include the widely acclaimed violin sonatas by Schumann and Brahms with Aleksandar Madžar for the Wigmore Live label and, for Hyperion, Britten’s Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stravinsky’s complete works for violin and piano with Thomas Adès, and the Kurt Weill and Peteris Vasks violin concertos. This season, Anthony will record the Walton Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He is a Hyperion Artist.
Anthony was the violinist of the Florestan Trio was for fifteen years and named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006, and made a fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2013. He is co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival and teaches annually at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont. He plays a 1736 Carlo Bergonzi violin kindly bought by a syndicate of purchasers.
