CITY OF BREA CONCERT
July 27, 28, 29, 2010 
Night at the Cinema!
Join the Orange County Wind Symphony as we explore the soundtracks to some of our most famous Blockbusters from Harry Potter to Star Wars!
Curtain Up: This is Broadway!
with Tony Award winning selections in a concert setting from great shows such as West Side Story, Hairspray, Wicked, Les Miserables, Sweeny Todd, South Pacific and more
"Star Spangled Spectacular!
Celebrate your patriotism with an all new salute to America! Music by John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin, Aaron Copland, and George M. Cohan. A must see for the whole family!
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Anthony R Parnther
Music Director and Conductor
Anthony Parnther is Music Director and Conductor of the Orange County Symphony in Anaheim, California. In addition to his duties with the OC Symphony, Mr. Parnther serves as the Founding Conductor of the Applachian Brass Orchestra as well as the newly forged Orange County Wind Symphony. He is also the Artistic Director of the Anaheim Music Festival and the founding Artistic Director of the Wind Symphony Conducting Institute. The Orange County Symphony has undergone considerable change since Anthony's appointment in Spring 2008. Through collaborating with the OCS Executive Director and Board of Directors and through aggressive recruiting, Anthony has more than doubled the roster of the 005, having expanded the orchestra to nearly 120 members, and has guided the musical focus towards the large scale works of the early Romantic through 21st Century, as well as exposing and supporting emerging conductors, composers, and soloists from the Orange County community as well as abroad. In the Summer of 2008, Anthony also founded the 70-member Orange County Wind Symphony, which performed it's inaugural outdoor concert to thousands in Irvine, and it's first indoor concert to a near-capacity house in the spring of 2009. The Orange County Wind Symphony is quickly gaining recognition as one of the premier organizations of it's type and has been invited to perform at two of the worlds most prestigious concert locales; Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles the summer of 2010 and the New York Wind Band Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York City in the Spring of 2011.
A multifaceted musician, Anthony has been featured as a conductor and performer in virtually every musical medium from ballet to opera, and musicals to chamber groups and has performed alongside or conducted in concert such noted artists as Jon Faddis, the Ahn Trio, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Sheridan, Ronald Romm, Doc Severinsen, Oystein Baadsvik, Edgar Meyer, Marvin Stamm, Rick Simerly, Mike Vax, Josef Burgstaller, Glen Dodson, and Ani Kavafian, among others. An advocate of new music, Anthony recently led the Appalachian Brass in concert at the International Brass and Chamber Music Festival at the University of Louisville, where they performed and premiered works by leading and upcoming composers Eric Ewazen, Lauren Bernofsky, Anthony Flog, Brian Sadler, Kyungha Ahn, Corrado Maria Sagitetti, Edward Morse and Oystein Baadsvik. Anthony has been praised by numerous noted composers composers, including Karel Husa, Frank Ticheli, Anthony Flog, Eric Ewazen and Lauren Bernofsky for his preparation and interpretation of their works in performance.
As a performer, he has been a featured soloist with orchestras and wind bands throughout the Southeastern United States, having recently performed the bassoon concertos of Mozart (in B-flat), John Williams (Five Sacred Trees), and Frigyes Hidas. He has studied bassoon with Robert Barris (Northwestern University), Tristan Willem (ETSU) and additionally with Christopher Weait (ret.Toronto Symphony), Judith Leclair (New York Philharmonic), Kim Walker (Indiana University), and William Winstead (Cincinnatti Conservatory). Anthony's private students have gone on to prestigious music festivals such as Sarasota, Eastern Music Festival, Interlochen, Cannon and Tanglewood and have accepted admittance and scholarships at some of the most prestigious schools of music in the United States including Eastman, DePaul, New England Conservatory., Cincinnati Conservatory, Cleveland Institute and the Colburn Institute of Music. Anthony is an active performer and teacher on all woodwind instruments, as well as Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Tuba.
Equally at home in the realm of composition and arranging, Anthony has written numerous published compositions for the Wind Ensemble and Brass Ensemble medium and has enjoyed premieres of his works at regional and international venues including the 2004, 2005, and 2006 International Trumpet Guild Conferences in Denver, Bangkok, and Glassboro respectively as well as the 2005 National Trumpet Competition in Washington D.C. He additionally serves as a creative consultant and designer for the Drum Corps and Competitive Marching Band activity, having designed hundreds of shows for institutions in 20 states and serves as an adjudicator for the United States Scholastic Band Association amongst other associations.
Anthony holds active memberships in the American Symphony Orchestra League, National Bandmasters Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, the International Trumpet Guild, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, International Double Reed Society, music Educators National Conference, College Band Directors National Association, Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity and the Conductors Guild.
