Anthony Parnther is in his sixth season as Music Director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. As conductor of the Gateways Festival Orchestra, whose members hail from leading orchestras nationwide, he led the ensemble at both its Chicago debut at Symphony Hall and its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut.

A master of multiple genres, Anthony has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, who range from Joshua Bell and Jessye Norman to Rihanna and John Legend, as well as many eminent ensembles. These include the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and Chineke! Orchestra, with whom he made his debut at London’s BBC Proms. Upcoming highlights include his Chicago Symphony debut and a revival of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, The Central Park Five, at Detroit Opera.

Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Anthony has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. As well as leading LA Opera’s world premiere of Tamar-kali’s oratorio We Hold These Truths, Anthony has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Anthony Davis, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, Perry, Price, Taylor, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass. For his extensive championing of works by Black, Latino, and women composers, the conductor was profiled in 2015 as a “Local Hero” by Los Angeles’s PBS SoCal/KCET.

As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Anthony helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series, working in close collaboration with some of the most decorated media composers on the scoring stages of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, Glasgow, and London. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Nope, Creed III, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Tenet, American Dad!, Turning Red, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, League of Legends, and the Grammy-winning Oppenheimer soundtrack.