Bio
Anthony Elliott is an American conductor and cellist. He has led numerous orchestras in prestigious settings around the world, including Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, as well as concerts in Holland, Germany, and Austria.
Presently Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, he has guest conducted the San Antonio Symphony, the Sphinx Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Prince George’s Philharmonic, the Kalamazoo Philharmonic, the CAMMAC Orchestra, and the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra.
His work as a tireless advocate on behalf of music has included associations with such organizations as the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, Blossom Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, and the Seattle Youth Symphony.
He has championed new works by African American composers Michael Abels, David Baker, Primous Fountain, Augustus Hill, Chad Hughes, James Lee, and Coleridge Taylor Perkinson; American composers Leslie Bassett, Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, and Joan Tower; and Canadian composers Richard Cohen, Jeffrey Ryan, Fred Schipizsky, and Robert Turner. Fully staged opera performances include Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart’s Magic Flute, Menotti’s The Consul, and Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Anthony Elliot is also a prize winning cellist, being the first person to win the Feuermann International Solo Cello Competition. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Toronto Orchestra. He has appeared in chamber music with the present and former Concertmasters of the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Emerson, Cleveland, Juilliard, and Concord String Quartets.
Education
BM, Indiana University