About the Artist

Freshly back from Berlin, Germany, where he was judging the Feuermann Cello
Competition, Anthony Elliott was the Grand Prize winner of the Emmanuel Feuermann
Memorial International Cello Solo Competition in 1987. He continues to garner critical
acclaim for his performances as a concert cellist, conductor, and soloist. Presently he is
Emeritus Professor of Cello at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has
appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota
Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Toronto
Orchestra. He has championed new works for cello, including the Cello Concerto by
Primous Fountain, which he premiered with Stanislav Skrowaczewski and the Minnesota
Orchestra, and the Memorial to Martin Luther King by Canadian composer Oskar
Morawetz. He earned rave notices for his performances of Richard Strauss’s Don
Quixote with Kazuyoshi Akiyama and the Vancouver Symphony. Principal cello
experiences included collaborations with Neville Marriner, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos,
Eric Leinsdorf, Eugene Ormandy, Antal Dorati, Karl Richter, Klauss Tennstedt, James
DePriest, and Alexander Schneider.

Festival appearances have included Sitka Summer Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival,
Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, New York’s Bargemusic Series,
Chamber Music International of Dallas, Houston’s DaCamera Series, the Victoria
International Festival, Kent/Blossom Festival, and the Gateways Festival. Chamber
music appearances have included collaborations with the present and former
concertmasters of such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw
Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony,
Deutsche Kammerakademie, and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic.
A highly successful conductor, he has conducted professional symphonies, operas, choirs,
ballets, youth and chamber orchestras, in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall,
Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and Benaroya Hall in Seattle. In Germany he has conducted in
Heidelburg, Nurnburg and Munich, and in Austria at Salzburg and Badgastein.
Collaborations include guest conducting the San Antonio Symphony, the Sphinx
Symphony, the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra, the CAMMAC Orchestra, the Prince
George’s Philharmonic, the Vancouver Chamber Players, the Scott Joplin Chamber
Orchestra, and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. He served as Music
Director for productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Cosi Fan Tutte, as well as
Menotti’s The Consul and Amahl and the Night Visitors.

He has given master classes at the Aspen School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music,
Eastman School of Music, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Indiana
University, Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Meadowmount School, and
the Interlochen Arts Academy. He performs on the magnificent “Ex Duke of Edinburgh”
Tecchler, which dates from 1703.