Anthony Parnther is in his seventh season as Music Director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. His 2025–26 highlights include the New York Philharmonic’s season-opening gala, New Year’s Eve celebrations with The Philadelphia Orchestra, a world premiere with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and residencies at Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

A master of multiple genres, Parnther 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 major ensembles. These include the Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Sydney Symphony and Vancouver Symphony; Chineke! orchestra, with which he made his debut at London’s BBC Proms; and Gateway Festival Orchestra, at concerts including the orchestra’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut.

Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Parnther 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 and revivals of Anthony Davis’ opera The Central Park Five at Long Beach and Detroit Operas, Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, 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.

As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Parnther 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, Sinners, Tenet, American Dad!, Turning Red, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, League of Legends and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning Oppenheimer soundtrack. anthonyparnther.com