Antony Walker
Born in Sydney, Antony Walker is an Australian conductor whose reputation for artistic excellence in direction and performance places him among the leading musicians of his generation.
Notable appearances on the international concert platform have included Haydn’s Creation with the Selangor Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra of Malaysia, and a 500-voice performance of the Berlioz Te Deum. He has also appeared in the presence of the Queen, conducting the WNO Chorus and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the opening of the new Welsh Assembly.
In Australia he has conducted leading symphony and chamber orchestras and instrumental ensembles around the country, among them the Adelaide, Melbourne, West Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian and Adelaide Chamber Orchestras, the Queensland Philharmonia Orchestra, and many of Australia’s finest contemporary ensembles. Highlights have included the worldwide live simulcast of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for the opening ceremony of the Nagano Winter Olympics, and conducting at the Sydney Opera House for the 2000 millennium celebrations. For Opera Australia he has conducted Tales of Hoffmann, Faust, Hansel and Gretel and The Magic Flute.
His commitment to contemporary composition and performance is shown in more than seventy premiere performances of works by Australian composers, and in many Australian premieres of significant international works.
Antony Walker is featured on the following titles
Peggy Glanville-Hicks: The Songs
World premiere recordings of songs by Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, including the cycle Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, sung by tenor Gerald English.
Antony Walker also appears on
There Came a Wind like a Bugle: Chamber Music by Nigel Butterley
Chamber works spanning some thirty years by Nigel Butterley, one of Australia’s finest composers, for soloists, song and choir.
Mozart Unexpurgated
The Song Company sings Mozart’s scatological canons and songs, with fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster improvising the accompaniments and taking two irreverent solo turns.