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Meet Maestro Anthony Parnther - Music Director & Conductor

Maestro Anthony Parnther has been selected as the new Music Director & Conductor for the Inland Valley Symphony. He made his debut appearance in November, conducting the symphony for their "EUROPEAN TOUR" concerts. With a renewed vision for the growth and development of the Inland Valley Symphony, Anthony will step up on the podium for the remaining 2009-2010 concert season.

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Mr. Parnther is in his inaugural year as Conductor and Music Director of the Orange County Symphony in Anaheim, California. In addition to his duties with the OC Symphony, Mr. Parnther serves as the Founding Conductor of the critically acclaimed Appalachian Brass Orchestra, as well as the newly forged Orange County Wind Symphony.

A multifaceted musician, Mr. Parnther has been featured as a conductor in virtually every musical medium from Ballet to Wind Band. Recent Conducting engagements include Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors with the East Tennessee State University Opera Workshop and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Wells Theatre in Virginia.

Mr. Parnther is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician nationally and will appear in concert with the conference brass ensembles at the International Brass Chamber Music Festival at the University of Louisville this fall.

He has studied conducting and score study with Paul Hinman, Roxanne Haskill, Thomas Jenrette, Francis MacBeth, and John R. Bourgeois and has received praise from numerous composers including Eric Ewazen, Anthony Plog, and Karel Husa for the performance and interpretation of their works.

Mr. Parnther’s musical studies began at age 4. He studied cello with Evangeline Bennedetti of the New York Philharmonic, piano with Darlene Fedele. He has also studied bassoon with Robert Barris (Northwestern University), D. Keith McClelland and Tristan Willems (East Tennessee State University) and in master class with Christopher Weait (Toronto Symphony), Judith Leclair (New York Philharmonic), Kim Walker (Indiana University), Jeff Keesecker (Florida State), and William Winstead (Cincinnati Conservatory). He has been a featured soloist with numerous orchestras throughout the Southeastern United States and in 2005 performed the Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B-flat with the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Stites conducting.

Mr. Parnther’s private bassoon students have gone on to prestigious music festivals such as Sarasota, Eastern Music Festival, Interlochen, Cannon and Tanglewood.