About: Antony Walker (conductor)

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: Antony Walker (conductor) Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:MusicalArtist, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAntony_Walker_%28conductor%29&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Antony Walker is an Australian conductor who currently resides in Washington, D.C. He has held the positions of Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Chorus Master and staff conductor of Welsh National Opera, and is currently Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera and Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera. He co-founded Pinchgut Opera, the vocal ensemble Cantillation and the orchestras Sinfonia Australis and Orchestra of the Antipodes. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, and an honours graduate of the University of Sydney, Walker trained as a singer (tenor), pianist, cellist, and composer.

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing foaf:Person person dul:NaturalPerson schema:MusicGroup Eukaryote Person Artist Human Animal animal eukaryote species schema:Person artist musical artist
rdfs:label	Antony Walker (conductor) (en) Antony Walker (it)
rdfs:comment	Antony Walker (Sydney, 5 dicembre 1967) è un direttore d'orchestra, direttore teatrale e direttore artistico australiano naturalizzato statunitense, attualmente residente a Washington. Ha ricoperto gli incarichi di direttore musicale dei Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, di maestro del coro e direttore dello staff della Welsh National Opera ed è attualmente direttore artistico e direttore d'orchestra della Washington Concert Opera e direttore musicale della Pittsburgh Opera. Ha cofondato la Pinchgut Opera, il gruppo vocale Cantillation e le orchestre Sinfonia Australis e Orchestra of the Antipodes. Formatosi alla Sydney Grammar School e laureato con lode all'Università di Sydney, Walker si è formato come tenore, pianista, violoncellista e compositore. (it) Antony Walker is an Australian conductor who currently resides in Washington, D.C. He has held the positions of Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Chorus Master and staff conductor of Welsh National Opera, and is currently Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera and Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera. He co-founded Pinchgut Opera, the vocal ensemble Cantillation and the orchestras Sinfonia Australis and Orchestra of the Antipodes. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, and an honours graduate of the University of Sydney, Walker trained as a singer (tenor), pianist, cellist, and composer. (en)
foaf:name	Antony Walker (en)
name	Antony Walker (en)
birth place	Sydney, Australia (en)
dcterms:subject	Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian musicians Australian expatriates in the United States 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century Australian male musicians 20th-century Australian musicians 21st-century conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 21st-century Australian male musicians Australian conductors (music)
Wikipage page ID	57640513 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1079976338 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	David et Jonathas Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Orchestra of the Antipodes 21st-century Australian musicians Australian expatriates in the United States 20th-century conductors (music) Lawrence Brownlee ABC Classics Anders J. Dahlin Marc-Antoine Charpentier 20th-century Australian male musicians 20th-century Australian musicians 21st-century conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 21st-century Australian male musicians Australian conductors (music) Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Pinchgut Opera Pittsburgh Opera Cantillation (ensemble) Sara Macliver Welsh National Opera Washington Concert Opera Sinfonia Australis
sameAs	Antony Walker (conductor) Antony Walker (conductor) Antony Walker (conductor) Antony Walker (conductor)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Authority_control dbt:Infobox_musical_artist dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:Use_Australian_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Australia-musician-stub dbt:Conductor-stub
genre	Classical (en)
occupation	Conductor, music director, artistic director (en)
origin	Australia (en)
has abstract	Antony Walker is an Australian conductor who currently resides in Washington, D.C. He has held the positions of Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Chorus Master and staff conductor of Welsh National Opera, and is currently Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera and Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera. He co-founded Pinchgut Opera, the vocal ensemble Cantillation and the orchestras Sinfonia Australis and Orchestra of the Antipodes. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, and an honours graduate of the University of Sydney, Walker trained as a singer (tenor), pianist, cellist, and composer. At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Walker has led performances of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, and Les Pêcheurs de Perles, as well as the National Council Auditions Grand Finals Concert in 2016. For English National Opera he has conducted Lucia di Lammermoor and The Tales of Hoffmann. Walker has appeared as guest conductor with Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, The Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Minnesota Opera, Arizona Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, North Carolina Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Opera di Firenze. In 2008 hr conducted the US premiere of William Walton's opera Troilus and Cressida at the Opera Theater of St Louis, and in the 2018–19 season for Washington Concert Opera he conducted the US premiere of Gounod's Sapho (starring Kate Lindsay) and the first performance in the US since 1835 of Rossini's Zelmira (with Silva tro SantaFé, Lawrence Brownlee, and Vivica Genaux). In 2022 Walker conducted the world premiere of In a Grove, by Christopher Cerrone, for Pittsburgh Opera. He has conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmanian, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre Colonne in Paris, Thessaloniki State Symphony, and made his debut with the Mozarteum Orchester in Salzburg in Jan 2019 with a program of Berlioz and Tchaikovsky. He is noted as a fine interpreter of "bel canto", Rossini, French opera, Verdi, Puccini, the Viennese classical composers, Bach, and Handel, as well as French and English composers of the 20th century. (en) Antony Walker (Sydney, 5 dicembre 1967) è un direttore d'orchestra, direttore teatrale e direttore artistico australiano naturalizzato statunitense, attualmente residente a Washington. Ha ricoperto gli incarichi di direttore musicale dei Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, di maestro del coro e direttore dello staff della Welsh National Opera ed è attualmente direttore artistico e direttore d'orchestra della Washington Concert Opera e direttore musicale della Pittsburgh Opera. Ha cofondato la Pinchgut Opera, il gruppo vocale Cantillation e le orchestre Sinfonia Australis e Orchestra of the Antipodes. Formatosi alla Sydney Grammar School e laureato con lode all'Università di Sydney, Walker si è formato come tenore, pianista, violoncellista e compositore. (it)
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Antony_Walker_(conductor)?oldid=1079976338&ns=0
page length (characters) of wiki page	4743 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Antony_Walker_(conductor)
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Gerard Willems The Summer King (opera) Orchestra of the Antipodes Silvia Tro Santafé Teddy Tahu Rhodes Walker (surname) Dream with Me List of Old Sydneians Pinchgut Opera Idomeneo Anthony Walker Cantillation (ensemble) Semele (Handel) Il giuramento Sinfonia Australis
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Antony_Walker_(conductor)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 59 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software