Conductor and Artistic Director
Conductor Anthony Hose began piano lessons aged three and gave his first recital aged six. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London majoring in Piano, Harpsichord, and Conducting, additionally studying Clarinet and Double Bass. He continued his conducting studies first in Salzburg and then with Rafael Kubelik in Munich and Geneva.
He has worked with orchestras throughout Europe including the Budapest Concert Orchestra, Icelandic Symphony, Rhine Philharmonic, Munich Bach Collegium, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and in Britain with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, English Chamber, and Welsh Chamber Orchestra of which he is principal conductor. In the opera house he has led many productions for the Welsh National Opera with repertoire from Handel to the present day and including most of the operas of Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini. He has over 100 operas in his repertoire.
For BBC television he has conducted Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the world premiere of The Servants by William Mathias. At the Buxton International Festival, which he founded, he has conducted many operas including the first complete performance in Britain of Kodály’s Háry János and Cherubini’s Medée. He has broadcast many operas for BBC Radio 3 including Cavalli’s Jason, which he directed from the harpsichord in his realization, Gounod’s La Colombe, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Kodály’s folk opera The Spinning Room. He has regularly conducted the Icelandic Opera recording videos of Il Trovatore (Verdi), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach), Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart). He is Artistic Director of the Beaumaris Festival in Wales.
Maestro Hose has been the guest conductor for opera companies including L’Opéra de Lyon, Gothenburg Opera, New Sadler’s Wells Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Mid Wales Opera. He has also guest conducted orchestras including the Ankara Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Orlando Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra and the Wren Orchestra of London.
An advocate for contemporary composers he has recorded CDs of music by William Mathias, Alun Hoddinott and Sir Michael Tippett.
He was for many years a professor at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London and guest professor for the Cincinnati College Conservatory. He has given orchestral, opera, and Lieder masterclasses throughout Europe and is Director of Orchestras at Stetson University in Florida.
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