Conductor Anthony Hose began playing piano at age three and gave his first recital at age six.  He studied at the Royal College of Music in London majoring in piano, harpsichord, and conducting, additionally studying clarinet and double bass.  He continued his conducting studies first in Salzburg and then with Rafael Kubelik in Munich and Geneva.

Hose works with many orchestras throughout Europe including the Berlin Symphony, Budapest Concert Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony, the Rhine Philharmonic, the Munich Bach Collegium and the Orchestre de L’Opera de Lyons and in Britain with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the English Chamber and Welsh Chamber Orchestra of which he is principal conductor.

In the opera house he has conducted many productions for the Welsh National Opera with repertoire ranging from Handel to Tippett and including most of the operatic repertoire of Mozart, Verdi, and Puccini.

Hose’s BBC radio broadcasts include Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and Albert Herring and Hamlet (Thomas).  For BBC television he has conducted Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the world premiere of The Servants by William Mathias.  At the Buxton International Festival he has conducted many operas including the first complete performance in Britain of Kodaly’s Hary Janos and Cherubini’s Medee.  He has broadcast many operas for BBC Radio 3 including Cavalli’s Jason, which he directed from the harpsichord in his realization of Kodaly’s folk opera, The Spinning Room.  He has regularly conducted the Icelandic Opera and opera companies in Sweden and France.

He is artistic director of the Mount Dora Spring Festival here in Florida and of festivals in Wales at Beaumaris and Llandudno, and was recently appointed Director of Orchestral Studies at Stetson University.