Dr Anthony Halliday is invited annually to give piano and organ recitals and concerto performances throughout Europe and Australasia. His playing won critical praise from several internationally renowned conductors. Walter Susskind hailed his performance of Beethoven’s fourth piano Concerto as “magnificent”.
His Ph.D. thesis Written Text: a resource for performance-interpretation of Beethoven’s piano sonatas Opp.106, 110 and 111 in a Christological context for the first time provides a substantiated narrative explaining the significance of the Hammerklavier sonata. The thesis has been placed for reference in the library of the Beethoven Birth-House, Bonn.
Anthony Halliday has performed in international music festivals in Cologne, Bonn, Rome, Bochum and Bocholt. In London he has performed in the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral and performed concertos with soloists from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and St. Cecilia Chamber Orchestra. He received outstanding reviews from London’s Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. He won the ABC Commonwealth Concerto competition playing Bartok’s second piano concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and recorded all thirty-two piano sonatas by Beethoven and performed the complete 48 Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier by J. S. Bach from memory.
In a rare feat he scooped all seven first prizes at the Royal College of Organists, London Fellowship examinations and the Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, London.
His compositions include Symphony for Kleve Germany, Three fugues for piano and MissaCelebrationis for double choir and orchestra, premiered in 2017 in Bonn, Germany. He serves as Associate Director of Music and Principal Organist to Melbourne’s St. Francis Church and the Blessed Sacrament Community.
