British violinist Anthony Marwood, appointed an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honors List, is known worldwide as an artist of exceptional expressive force. His energetic and collaborative nature places him in great demand as soloist/director with chamber orchestras worldwide. He is Principal Artistic Partner of the celebrated Canadian chamber orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, a post he took up in 2015. His renown as a soloist has led to collaborations with celebrated conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Thomas Søndergård, David Robertson, Gerard Korsten, Ilan Volkov, Jaime Martin, Bernard Labadie and Douglas Boyd.

In recent years, engagements have included the Boston Symphony, St Louis Symphony and Vienna Radio Symphony, as well as the New Zealand and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Last season included performances of Kurt Weill’s Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia, play/direct projects with the Aurora Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall and with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, a return to the Amsterdam Sinfonietta for a tour of the Netherlands and a performance of Brahms’s Double Concerto with Alexander Rudin and Musica Viva Moscow.

Anthony Marwood is a celebrated champion of contemporary music, alongside more traditional repertoire. Among those new works composed for him is Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto Concentric Paths. Marwood premiered the work in Berlin and at the BBC Proms with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Adès conducting. They followed these performances with many national premieres around the globe and a release on EMI (2010). Last season, he performed the Concerto with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andrew Manze. Also composed for Anthony were Steven Mackey’s Four Iconoclastic Episodes, premiered in 2009 with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and Sally Beamish’s 1995 violin concerto, premiered by Marwood with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. The most recent work written for Marwood is Samuel Adams’ Violin Concerto, premiered in 2014 by the Berkeley Symphony in California under Joana Carneiro to critical acclaim. In the 2016/2017 season, Anthony Harwood was Artist-in-Residence at the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

During this summer season 2018, Anthony Marwood made his annual returns to Yellow Barn and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festivals; and joined the Skaneateles Festival for an extraordinary “Schubert Up Close” evening where twenty audience members will receive invitations to join three renowned Schubert interpreters up close, seated on stage: pianist Inon Barnatan, tenor Nicholas Phan and violinist Anthony Marwood, and Artistic Director Julia Bruskin joins them. Nicholas, Inon and Anthony also rekindle some childhood memories with an evening of “Songs from Home,” a program of folk songs and accompanying instrumental music that explores music’s ability to carry us all back home.

The 2018/2019 season includes engagements with the New World Symphony (Chausson Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet), leader/soloist with the New Century Chamber Orchestra (Dvořák, Sally Beamish and Peteris Vasks), as leader and soloist with the Saint Louis Symphony with two Beethoven gems: Violin Concerto and Romance in F and a return to Quebec City as soloist and conductor with Les Violons du Roy for Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Piano and Violin with pianist Aleksandar Madžar.

The 2017/2018 season included a tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, play/direct engagements with the Sydney Symphony and Tapiola Sinfonietta in Helsinki, Mozart, Bruckner and Haydn with Les Violons du Roy in Quebec City, debuts with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra (Adès Concerto) and Jacksonville Symphony (Berg) and two concerto appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Paris (Beethoven and Berg).

As a chamber musician, Marwood is a frequent participant at major chamber music festivals, with recent appearances including Vinterfest in Sweden, the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival and Bridgehampton Festival in New York. His recital partners include pianist Aleksandar Madžar, with whom he toured the US last season, and accordionist James Crabb, with whom he appeared at Wigmore Hall in 2015. Marwood also returned to the Wigmore Hall to join musical colleagues for the octets of Mendelssohn and Enescu.

Anthony Marwood’s most recent release—his 50th on the Hyperion label—is a recording of Walton’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. The disc has received critical acclaim, including a 5-star review in The Guardian and Classical Source and a “Recommended Recording” in The Strad Magazine, whilst the Sunday Times hailed Marwood as “a thrilling, virtuosic soloist.” Other recent releases for Hyperion include Schumann’s late works for violin and orchestra and Britten’s Violin and Double Concertos, both with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Marwood’s recording of Schumann’s violin sonatas, recorded with Aleksandar Madžar on the award-winning Wigmore Live label, was described by International Record Review as “exemplary in every way,” following on from the duo’s acclaimed recording of the Brahms violin sonatas on the same label.

Another facet of Anthony Marwood’s career is genre-bending presentations, such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields’ fully-staged production of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, in which Marwood acted the role of the Soldier and played the violin part. He also enjoyed a successful collaboration with award-winning Indian classical dancer Mayuri Boonham.

Born in London, Anthony Marwood studied with Emanuel Hurwitz at the Royal Academy of Music, David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music, and took lessons from Sándor Végh and Daniel Phillips at IMS Prussia Cove. He was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006 and was the violinist of the Florestan Trio for sixteen years. He is co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival in East Sussex, performs annually at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and enjoys a close association with the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. Marwood was appointed a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in 2013. He plays a 1736 Carlo Bergonzi violin, kindly purchased by a syndicate of purchasers.