Anthony Parnther is stays busy in the coming months with symphonic programs, movie music, and innovative youth programs.
Films in concert with Cleveland Orchestra & more
“The quintessential L.A. musician of our day” (Los Angeles Times), Parnther is “Hollywood’s go-to conductor for epic projects” (Billboard). As CBS News reported, he is one of today’s foremost film conductors, who has helmed a host of blockbuster film scores and is regularly invited to lead high-profile live-to-film events. After similar performances earlier this month with the Seattle Symphony, he returns to both The Cleveland Orchestra (March 28 & 29) and Fort Worth Symphony (March 8) for Black Panther in concert, set to the Oscar- and Grammy-winning score by Ludwig Göransson. Parnther also leads a selection of his own cinematic favorites with New York’s Buffalo Philharmonic (Feb 1).
Innovative young artist programs
Actively committed both to expanding career opportunities for young people from underserved communities and to advocating for underrepresented talent in the concert hall, Parnther is the Artistic Director of Burbank-based nonprofit Musicians at Play (MAP), which partners Los Angeles-area schools with a vibrant community of music professionals.
Under MAP’s auspices, he has also launched two similarly transformative projects. Since 2022 he has served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the RISE Diversity Project. To recruit young musicians of color to the world of television and film, this unique career pathways project offers mentorship, coaching, and the chance to play alongside professional studio musicians on a world-class scoring stage. The program’s annual selection and training process culminates with public performances of musical movie excerpts by this season’s newly formed RISE Orchestra. Held in Los Angeles, these will be led by Parnther himself (Feb 15 & 16).
In a free concert presented in partnership with the Sphinx Organization, Parnther conducts the Indianapolis Symphony’s Midwest premiere of Mortgante by Argentinian composer Andrés Martín. Featuring Sphinx Competition-winning violinist Samuel Vargas, with whom Parnther premiered the concerto last year, this forms the centerpiece of a program flanked by Price’s The Oak and Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony (March 20). It was in Beethoven’s Fourth that Parnther previously impressed The Guardian with his “high voltage interpretation that maintained a fine balance between detail and elan,” of which “the finale was edge-of-your-seat stuff.”