Anthony Marwood is a British solo violinist.

Early life

He was born 6 July 1965 to Michael Travers Marwood and Anne née Chevallier. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in

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. He then studied at the

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and the

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. His teachers included

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and David Takeno.

Career

In the summer of 2021 Marwood performed the Ligeti Violin Concerto in the Koussevitsky Shed at

Tanglewood Music Festival The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts. The festival consists of a series of concerts, including symphonic music, ch ...

under the baton of

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, and in October 2021 he will play as soloist with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in the

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Grote Zaal in Amsterdam. He was Artistic Director of the

Irish Chamber Orchestra The Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) is an Irish classical music ensemble, administratively based at the University of Limerick. János Fürst founded the ICO in 1963. The ICO consisted only of strings as its regular ensemble for many years, adding wi ...

from 2006 to 2011. From 1995 to 2012, he was a member of the

Florestan Trio The Florestan Trio was a piano trio. Formed in 1995 in London, England, its members were Anthony Marwood (violin), Richard Lester (cello), and Susan Tomes (piano). Their recording of the first two trios by Robert Schumann, Schumann won the 1999 Gra ...

with Susan Tomes and Richard Lester. He was Principal Artistic Partner with Les Violons du Roy from 2015 to 2019, and Artist in Residence at the

Det Norske Kammerorkester Det Norske Kammerorkester or The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (established in 1977) is a chamber orchestra based in Oslo. Biography The orchestra was founded by the violinist Bjarne Fiskum who got the idea for a summer course for young string tal ...

in 2016/17. Marwood has performed contemporary violin concertos by Samuel Adams (composer),

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, and

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composed his violin concerto ('Concentric Paths') for Marwood. He has recorded commercially over 50 CD recordings for such labels as Hyperion and EMI Classics. In 2006, Marwood won the

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's Instrumentalist of the Year Award. In the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2018, he was given an MBE.

References

External links

Official website of Anthony Marwood

Colbert Artists Management Inc. agency page on Anthony Marwood
English classical violinists British male violinists People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford Living people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Members of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century classical violinists 21st-century British male musicians 1965 births Male classical violinists {{violinist-stub