American conductor Anthony Parnther is music director of the San Bernardino Symphony. He has conducted many of the world’s greatest artists in virtually every genre, including Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman, Yundi Li, Lynn Harrell, Frederica von Stade, the Canadian Brass, Rihanna, Jennifer Holliday, Kanye West, Imagine Dragons, and Omar Apollo. Mr. Parnther’s recent guest appearances include the Los Angeles, Rochester, and Calgary philharmonics; the Atlanta, San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore, and National symphonies; Los Angeles Opera; the Chineke! Orchestra; the Cleveland Institute of Music; and the World Opera Forum in Madrid. Tonight marks his Philadelphia Orchestra debut. In the upcoming season, he will lead the New York and Buffalo philharmonics; the Seattle, Cincinnati, Sydney, San Diego, Virginia, and Vancouver, symphonies; the Music Academy of the West; and the Grant Park Music Festival.

On the scoring stages of Los Angeles, London, Nashville, Budapest, and San Francisco, Mr. Parnther has led and conducted recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films, television series, and video game franchises. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Nope, League of Legends, Creed III, Tenet, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Arcane, The Adam Project, The Way Back, The Lost City, Little, Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild, Diaries of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, Fargo, The Lamplighters League, and Guild Wars, among others.

Mr. Parnther has premiered and recorded works by composers including Anthony Davis, George Walker, Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Tamar-kali, Florence Price, Adolphus Hailstork, Zenobia Powell Perry, Gary Powell Nash, Marian Harrison, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, James Wilson, Daniel Kidane, Chanda Dancy, and James Newton. In 2015 Los Angeles’ KCET/TV profiled Mr. Parnther as a “Local Hero” for his extensive community outreach and advocacy for performing works by Black, Latino, and women artists.