As a clarinettist Anthony is associated with the London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the English Chamber Orchestra.
He is a member of the Chinook Clarinet Quartet, performing at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, and the Bridgewater Hall. He has recorded many CDs with the London Mozart Players and English Chamber orchestra and also with the British Clarinet ensemble and Chinook.
As a composer, Anthony recently completed works the RCMJD Symphonic Wind Orchestra, the National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, an SPMN commission for the BBC Singers, and two orchestral pieces for the Philharmonia orchestra. (One of which was conducted by HRH The Prince of Wales.)
Anthony’s first opera The Black Monk (which he adapted himself from the Chekhov short story,) was premiered in 2003 to public acclaim by the Sirius ensemble at the Bloomsbury theatre in London.
I am pleased to say that all of my compositions (including my soon to be published new work for Bass clarinet and Piano) are available to buy through this website.
Have a look at the list of works and see if anything takes your fancy. all chamber and solo works are only £10 plus postage.
My Orchestral and larger scale works are also available to buy, but better to ask me about those individually if you are interested.
___________
Next recitals – May 4th, 1pm, Lion Walk Church, Colchester.
Programme to include Beethoven Clarinet Trio and Bartok 44 Duos in a new arrangement for Two clarinets.
plus October 9th, 6pm, St Osyth Church Concert Series, programme as above.
Here are some new events to tell you about for 2016.
Firstly, February 8th – 11th Benslow Music.
Intermediate Orchestra – I will be conducting Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1, Haydn Symphony no.104 and Faure’s Pavanne. places still available for string players. see http://www.benslow.org
____________________
City Lit Orchestra 7th – 8th April – I will be conducting Beethoven Symphony no.8 and Ah Perfido. see http://www.citylit.ac.uk for more information.
_____________________
City Lit Clarinet Choir 6th April 6.30-9.30. A one off clarinet choir session open to anyone. at city lit, Keeley Street, Covent Garden. see http://www.citylit.ac.uk for more information.
_____________________
May 9th- 13th Benslow Quintessential Clarinets. I will be coaching clarinettists on solo clarinet and piano repertoire. http://www.benslow.org for more.
_____________________
May 28th-29th Clarinet Playing Weekend, Watershed studio, St Osyth, Essex. come and play in a clarinet ensemble in lovely surroundings and ending with an informal 4pm concert on Sunday 29th. contact Anthony on 07930 410740 or antbailey@hotmail.com for more information.
_____________________
I am also excited to have been commissioned to write a new work for Bass Clarinet and Piano by Andrew Hunt. The new work will be ready later in the year.
It has been a busy summer on many summer courses. including a very successful Wind Chamber music course at Longcommon, for which I owe huge thanks to the Melville Family for hosting, Anna Hashimoto for an inspiring masterclass and Daniel King Smith for his always sensitive piano playing. (I will next be working with Dan on 25th November in our recital at the Wiltshire Music Centre – see post below.)
After that I had a wonderful week with the National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain, coaching on their under 11s course at Port Regis School in Dorset.
I am now deep in preparation for the Roman River Festival. This year I am running an exciting education project based on the Lark Ascending, culminating in an orchestrated performance at the festival finale on Sunday 4th October.
On Sept 14-15th I will be conducting Beethoven Symphony No.5 and Weber Clarinet Concerto no.1 with Melissa Youngs as Soloist at the City Lit Orchestral Workshop
I am very excited to announce that I am the first Young Artist in Residence at the Wiltshire Music Centre, for their 2015-16 Season. My first recital will be a lovely programme of Mozart, Bailey and Poulenc with Daniel King-Smith -Piano and Emma Richards -Viola on November 25th at 1pm.
Also, my Summer Course at Longcommon is now full! We are looking forward to welcoming Anna Hashimoto as Visiting Artist and Daniel King-Smith as course pianist.
Anthony has performed with the London Mozart Players regularly recently including on this CD which has been at number 1 in the UK specialist classical music charts. It has been very well reviewed in the press, – go and listen to it!
this is a Video of Contours II for clarinet and electronics,
written and performed by Anthony, in a performance at the
University of East Anglia last year.
this is a piece I wrote for Bill Vine and his wonderful electronics/speaker panels,search for UNIT page on facebook for our next big project together, and see below for indiegogo information page about it.
Also, I will be conducting my Orchestral Workshop at City Lit four times this year. the next being Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 with the lovely Gabriel Keen on March 31-April 1st.
Then the following course is July 14th -15th and will be Beethoven Symphony No.6.
Oh and in the summer I will be running the clarinet and sax choirs and wind chamber music at music for people summer course in Giggleswick, Cumbria from 1st -8th August.
