Biography

Anthony Parnther is in his fifth season as music director of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with artists including Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stadem Imagine Dragons, Wu-Tang Clan, Metro Boomin, and Rihanna. He also led LA Opera’s world premiere of Tamar-kali’s oratorio We Hold These Truths, Long Beach Opera’s revival of Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five, and the world premiere of I Can by Jon Batiste with Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. As a conductor for film and television, Parnther has helmed recording sessions for Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Nope, Creed III, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Tenet, American Dad!, Oppenheimer, Turning Red, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and League of Legends. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in March 2023.