Who is Anthony

Anthony Marwood’s recent solo engagements include performances with the Boston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, New World Symphony and Sydney Symphony. Anthony has worked with conductors Valery Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Thomas S?nderg?rd, David Robertson, Gerard Korsten, Ilan Volkov, Jaime Martin, and Douglas Boyd. Many leading composers have written concertos for him, including Thomas Adès, Steven Mackey, Sally Beamish and Samuel Carl Adams.

Anthony is a prolific recording artist. His most recent release of Walton’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins received wide critical acclaim, including a 5-star review in The Guardian whilst the Sunday Times described him as “a thrilling, virtuosic soloist”.

Anthony has collaborated with numerous actors, Indian classical dancer Mayuri Boonham, Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor, sculptress Nicole Farhi and South African guitarist Derek Gripper. He was the violinist of the Florestan Trio for sixteen years and won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist award in 2006.

Anthony was made a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in 2013. He plays a 1736 Carlo Bergonzi violin, kindly bought by a syndicate of purchasers, and a 2018 violin made by Christian Bayon.