Anthony Burton
Biography
Anthony Burton was educated in Hertfordshire, and gained an ARCM in oboe performance before reading music for an MA and a Mus.B at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked as an arts administrator at Dartmouth College in New England (where he also conducted a production of The Mikado), and for North West Arts in Manchester, before spending fifteen years as a producer, and later manager, on the staff of BBC Radio 3. At the BBC Anthony was responsible for devising and producing programmes ranging from mediaeval to contemporary music, and later for planning the concerts and broadcasts of the BBC Singers.
Since 1989 Anthony has been a freelance broadcaster, writer and record producer. His broadcasting credits as presenter include seven seasons of Record Review and many documentaries on Radio 3, the 39 part BBC World Service series The Story of Western Music, and numerous editions of the World Service Music Review. Anthony has written literally thousands of programme notes for concerts and recordings, hundreds of CD reviews for BBC Music Magazine, and a history of the BBC Singers. He has planned seasons of the New Macnaghten Concerts and the British Library Stefan Zweig Series. He was also guest artistic director of the 2001 Spitalfields Festival.