Mozart: Confutatis / Lacrimosa (2018 South Dakota All State Orch./Choir, Anthony Elliott, cond.)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Confutatis / Lacrimosa (from "Requiem")
2018 South Dakota All State Orchestra and Choir
Anthony Elliott, conductor
66th Annual All-State Chorus and Orchestra Festival
October 27th, 2018
Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD
Anthony Elliott is in great demand as a conductor, and as a concert cellist. Known for his fluid technique and assured interpretations, he has led numerous professional, amateur, and youth orchestras in prestigious settings around the world. Formerly Music Director of the Dexter Community Orchestra, presently he is Conductor of the Michigan Youth Symphony at the University of Michigan. He has shared podium duties at the Texas Music Festival with Maxim Shostakovich and Christoph Eschenbach, and at the Blossom Music Festival with Leonard Slatkin and Jahja Ling.
Recent performances include reengagements with the Sphinx Symphony at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, the Prince George’s Philharmonic in Washington DC, and the Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestra. On two separate occasions he has led the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to great critical acclaim. Guest conducting engagements have also included the San Antonio Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Scott Joplin Chamber Orchestra, and the Vancouver Chamber Players.
His conducting repertory includes most of the orchestral classics, as well as newer works by African American composers Michael Abels, James Lee, Augustus Hill, and Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, American composers Joan Tower, Michael Daugherty, Leslie Bassett, and Evan Chambers, and Canadian composers Robert Turner and Jeffrey Ryan. Fully staged opera performances have included Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Menotti’s the Consul, and Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. Choral collaborations have included such works as Britten’s Saint Nicholas Cantata, the Fantasia on Christmas Carols and the Hodie of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the Bach and Rutter Magnificats, and the Poulenc, Rutter, and Vivaldi Glorias.
As a tireless advocate for music education, he has led the All Northwest Orchestra as well as the All State Orchestras of New York, Texas, Florida, Washington, North Carolina, Alaska, Vermont, Maryland, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. As Music Director of the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, he led a heralded two week concert tour to Holland, Germany, and Austria, and was honored by Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire and the Houston City Council. He has given countless free clinics and workshops at inner city schools and community centers around the country. Recently, he appeared in Detroit with students from the Cornerstone School, Cass Tech High School, the Detroit School for the Arts, and the Marvin L Winan’s Fine Arts Academy.
Anthony Elliot is also a prize winning cellist, being the first person to win the Feuermann International Cello Competition. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, and the CBC Toronto Orchestra.