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Anthony Parnther
Conductor

Conductor Anthony Parnther is in his seventh season as music director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2023. Highlights of his 2025–26 season included the New York Philharmonic’s season-opening gala, a world premiere with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and residencies at Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Parnther has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell and Jessye Norman to Rihanna and John Legend, as well as many major ensembles. Recent conducting engagements include the Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, National, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Sydney, and Vancouver symphonies; the Cleveland Orchestra; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; London’s Chineke! Orchestra; and Gateways Festival Orchestra, at concerts including the orchestra’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut.


Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Mr. 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 Brown’s oratorio We Hold These Truths and revivals of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five at Long Beach and Detroit operas, Mr. Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass.


As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Mr. Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Creed III, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Sinners, American Dad!, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, League of Legends, and the Oscar– and GRAMMY–winning Oppenheimer.

Anthony Parnther
Conductor

Conductor Anthony Parnther is in his seventh season as music director of California’s San Bernardino Symphony. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2023. Highlights of his 2025–26 season included the New York Philharmonic’s season-opening gala, a world premiere with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and residencies at Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Parnther has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell and Jessye Norman to Rihanna and John Legend, as well as many major ensembles. Recent conducting engagements include the Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, National, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Sydney, and Vancouver symphonies; the Cleveland Orchestra; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; London’s Chineke! Orchestra; and Gateways Festival Orchestra, at concerts including the orchestra’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut.


Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Mr. 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 Brown’s oratorio We Hold These Truths and revivals of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five at Long Beach and Detroit operas, Mr. Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass.


As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Mr. Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Creed III, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Sinners, American Dad!, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, League of Legends, and the Oscar– and GRAMMY–winning Oppenheimer.