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2022-02-03 00:30:39
Gateways Music Festival Orchestra Makes Carnegie Hall Debut with World Premiere of New Jon Batiste Commission, Plus NYC Performances in April 2022
[…] Anthony Parnther will lead the orchestra in this historic performance. Known for his “charismatic, captivating conducting” (Los Angeles Times), Parnther serves as Music Director and Conductor of California’s San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra and the Southeast Symphony and Chorus, founded as an all-Black ensemble in 1948. Highly sought after as a guest conductor, he has also led such eminent American orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Atlanta Symphony, which he conducted at its celebrated live screening of Black Panther, and such leading international ensembles as the Chineke! Orchestra, with which he re-opened London’s newly-renovated Queen Elizabeth Hall in a historic […]
2019-09-23 00:46:00
Music Kitchen "Forgotten Voices" August Premiere #8 Featuring Errollyn Wallen's "My Soul"
[…] album, PHOTOGRAPHY, was voted Top Ten Classical Albums by USA’s National Public Radio. Her latest orchestral work is THIS FRAME IS PART OF THE PAINTING, a BBC Proms commission for BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Catriona Morison, mezzo soprano. It was premièred on August 15th at the Royal Albert Hall. Her Concerto Grosso (to be released on the NMC label) received its US premiere in September 2018 in Los Angeles by Southeast Symphony with Errollyn as pianist and NNENNA, a new work for Chineke! was commissioned by Cambridge Music Festival for performance in November 2018 and was recently performed in New York. It has just been announced that her opera The Silent Twins will receive its US premiere in New York in 2022. Errollyn Wallen’s albums (ERROLLYN, The Girl in My Alphabet and Meet Me at Harold Moores) have travelled 7.84 […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-09-12 14:35:18
Conductor Anthony Parnther Knows The Effect Seeing A Black Conductor On The Podium Can Have
“I’ve seen it many times when I’m conducting, and I see young children of various colors sitting in the front three or four rows,” says the new music director of the San Bernardino Symphony in California and the conductor of the historically Black orchestra Southeast Symphony in Los Angeles. “You can just tell, it’s like: […]
2019-08-31 23:36:00
SFCV.org: Anthony Parnther Finds Inspiration Everywhere
[…] the art form at Northwestern University and education at East Tennessee State University. He is a leading authority on orchestral works by minority and women composers and has, to date, restored and performed works by Florence Price, Zenobia Powell Perry, William Grant Still, and Duke Ellington, among others. In addition, the 2019–2020 season will see Parnther taking the podium for his 10th year as music director of the Southeast Symphony in Los Angeles. A primarily African-American orchestra that was founded in 1948, the symphony continues to perform a wide range of works, from spirituals and civil rights’ anthems to Handel’s Messiah. In April of last year, Parnther led a program dedicated to the works of composer/flutist James Newton that also featured musical luminaries such as pianist Gloria Cheng. Garnering praise for his conducting prowess throughout the world, Parnther […]
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