Anthony Parnther

“A conductor for the future” with “a flourishing career” (The New York Times), American conductor Anthony Parnther is now in his seventh season as music director of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. A master of multiple genres, Parnther has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Jessye Norman, and Frederica von Stade to Imagine Dragons, Wu-Tang Clan, John Legend, Metro Boomin, Avenged Sevenfold, and Rihanna.

Parnther’s recent conducting engagements include dates with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, Music Academy of the West, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also led London’s Chineke! Orchestra, which marked his BBC Proms debut, and the Gateways Festival Orchestra, which he led at its Chicago and sold-out Carnegie Hall debuts.

Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. As well as leading Los Angeles Opera’s world premiere of Tamar-kali’s oratorio We Hold These Truths and Long Beach Opera’s revival of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera, The Central Park Five, Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, George Lewis, James Newton, George Walker, and Errollyn Wallen. For his extensive championing of works by Black, Latino, and women composers, Parnther was profiled as a “Local Hero” by Los Angeles’s KCET/TV.

As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series, working in close collaboration with some of the most decorated media composers in the industry. On the scoring stages of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, Glasgow, and London, he has led the sessions for two films with Grammy- and Academy Award–winning scores by Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer and Sinners — and projects including the Grammy-winning Encanto, Emmy-winning The Mandalorian, and Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Tenet, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Creed III, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and League of Legends.