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 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.
Anthony John Bailey 