Since her triumph at Denmark's 1996 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, Adele Anthony has enjoyed an acclaimed and expanding international career with a performance schedule including both solo appearances and chamber music performances.
Highlights of Ms. Anthony's upcoming performance schedule include performances with the San Diego Symphony at its season opening gala concert, the Plano Symphony Orchestra, and South Bend Symphony. She also gives solo recitals of the complete works of Bach for solo violin in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, among other venues. She continues to perform in duo recital with her husband, Gil Shaham, having recently completed a seven-city European tour including performances in Bilbao, Paris and at the Prague Spring Festival. Recent highlights include performances with the Singapore Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and a chamber music tour with Gil Shaham, Alisa Weilerstein, and others, culminating in two performances at Carnegie's Zankel Hall ... read full bio
Since her triumph at Denmark's 1996 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, Adele Anthony has enjoyed an acclaimed and expanding international career with a performance schedule including both solo appearances and chamber music performances.
Highlights of Ms. Anthony's upcoming performance schedule include performances with the San Diego Symphony at its season opening gala concert, the Plano Symphony Orchestra, and South Bend Symphony. She also gives solo recitals of the complete works of Bach for solo violin in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, among other venues. She continues to perform in duo recital with her husband, Gil Shaham, having recently completed a seven-city European tour including performances in Bilbao, Paris and at the Prague Spring Festival. Recent highlights include performances with the Singapore Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and a chamber music tour with Gil Shaham, Alisa Weilerstein, and others, culminating in two performances at Carnegie's Zankel Hall.
In the United States, Ms. Anthony has performed with the symphony orchestras of Buffalo, Dayton, Ft. Worth, Indianapolis, Long Beach, Milwaukee, Seattle, Virginia, Wichita and the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, among others, and at summer festivals such as Aspen and La Jolla. An avid chamber musician, she also recently performed as a guest on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center series. Abroad, she has performed with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Denmark's Aalborg and Aarhus Symphony Orchestras, Finland's Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NDR Orchestra Hannover, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Adele Anthony is an active recording artist both as a soloist and as a leader of the International Sejong Soloists string ensemble. Her recording of the Philip Glass Violin Concerto with Takuo Yuasa and the Ulster Orchestra was released by Naxos in 2000, which followed an earlier release of an all-Schubert recital disc for the same label. She has also recorded Arvo Part's "Tabula rasa" with Gil Shaham, Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophone) and the Nielsen Violin Concerto with Dorrit Matson and the New York Scandia Symphony (Centaur).
Ms. Anthony was born in Tasmania and began playing the violin at an early age. She had the honor of playing in a Royal Command Performance before HRH Prince Charles at age 10 and made her Australian debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in 1983. Since then, she has appeared with all six symphony orchestras of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian, Tasmanian, Adelaide) as well as with the Australian Youth Orchestra. She has also performed in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and toured that country with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and she has performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She returns to perform in Australia regularly, most recently with the Adelaide Symphony in June 2006.
Ms. Anthony is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. At age 13, Ms. Anthony was the youngest winner of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra; the prize also featured a live national telecast of the Tchaikovsky Concerto. She won second prize at the 1993 Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris and was a prize-winner at the 1994 Hannover International Violin Competition. She has received awards from the Australia Council, the South Australian Government and The Queen's Trust, and in 1990 she was invited by the National Arts Club in New York to perform at the presentation of the Medal of Honor to Zubin Mehta.
Ms. Anthony studied at the Conservatory of the University of Adelaide with Beryl Kimber until 1987 and continued her studies at New York's Juilliard School, where she worked with the eminent teachers Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir and Hyo Kang. Adele Anthony performs on an Antonio Stradivarius violin, crafted in 1728. She resides in New York City with her husband and two children Elijah and Ella Mei.
