Anthony Marwood embarks on tour of Australia and New Zealand
It’s a busy start to the 2025/26 season for British violinist Anthony Marwood with a four-stop tour across Australia and New Zealand.
Recently named the new custodian of the c.1709 ‘Scotta’ Stradivari violin, held in trust by UKARIA Cultural Centre, Anthony fittingly began the tour in Adelaide with a concert at UKARIA. On Sunday 14 September, audiences were the first to hear the ‘Scotta’ in performance in Australia, in a programme with classical accordionist James Crabb and the ANAM String Quartet featuring Scottish traditional works, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, Sally Beamish’s Seavaigers, and Haydn’s Double Concerto.
Anthony and James reunite at Canberra’s Snow Concert Hall on 25 September with a programme of folk-inspired music alongside Crabb’s celebrated arrangements of Piazzolla’s Tango Suites, Oblivion and Escualo.
On Australia’s west coast, Anthony appears at ACO on the Pier in Sydney on the 19 September. Performing a programme of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 17 and Pēteris Vasks’ Violin Concerto No. 1 ‘Distant Light‘ with musicians from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he will also serve on the jury for the Conservatorium’s String Concerto Competition.
The tour concludes in October at New Zealand’s At the World’s Edge Festival of Chamber Music, which takes Anthony to venues across the South Island including Queenstown, Wanaka, Cromwell, Frankton, and Bannockburn. Alongside performing works by Mozart, Pärt, Beethoven and Puccini, he will mentor AWE’s young musicians and perform the world premiere of Setting Suns by AWE 2025 Emerging Composer Lauren Doherty.