Anthony Marwood, violin (Peasmarsh, England), enjoys a wide ranging international career as soloist, director, and chamber  musician, and has established relationships with orchestras and festivals throughout the world. He has performed concertos with  many leading ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, London Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Sydney Symphony and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Current engagements include return visits as soloist/director to Les Violons du Roy in Quebec, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Tippett’s Triple Concerto with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Thomas Adès, a series of Wigmore Hall recitals in London, a return to the kamara.hu festival at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and, in the same venue, the Brahms Double concerto with Miklós Perényi and Concerto Budapest, conducted by Gabor Takacs-Nagy. He will tour Australia and New Zealand again in 2025.  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, and has recorded 40 CDs for the Hyperion label, alongside many recordings for other  labels. His next project is to record Elgar’s violin concerto for Signum Records. Anthony was the violinist of the Florestan Trio for  sixteen years. He will begin teaching masterclasses at the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall from April 2025, and also holds a part-time position at the Royal Academy of Music as William Lawes Chair of Chamber Music, together with violist Lawrence Power. Anthony won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2006, and was  awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year Honours list. He plays a 1736 Carlo Bergonzi violin, kindly bought by a syndicate of  purchasers, a 2018 violin by Christian Bayon, and a bow by Joseph  René LaFleur. He lives in Sussex and part-time in Koringberg, South Africa, and is a citizen of the Netherlands as well as the UK. Previous Yellow Barn musician (since 2000)