Anthony Princiotti, Host
Anthony Princiotti, host of Black Sheep Radio's The Glass Bead Game, is a resident of Walpole, New Hampshire who, when he is not creating new episodes of the program, is gainfully employed as an orchestral conductor, violinist and teacher. His current activities include being the Music Director and Conductor of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra, the Music Director and Conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, a Senior Lecturer in Music at Dartmouth College and the Associate Conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra and, from 1993 to 1996, as Director of Instrumental Music and Conductor at Amherst College. As a guest conductor, Princiotti has appeared with the Calgary Philharmonic, the Vermont Symphony, the Lexington Sinfonietta, the Hartford Symphony, the Sao Paolo State Symphony and the New England String Ensemble.
Tony began his musical training at the age of four, studying the violin with his father. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1980 from the Juilliard School, where he studied violin with Oscar Shumsky and viola with William Lincer. As a graduate student at Juilliard, he studied conducting with Sixten Ehrling and Alfred Wallenstein. In 1987, Princiotti was the recipient of a conducting fellowship at Tanglewood where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. Princiotti received his Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1991, and received his Doctorate in 1999. At Yale, his principal teachers were Eleazar de Carvalho and Günther Herbig. He was also a recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Scholarship, the Charles Ives Scholarship, and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize.
Between 1981 and 1987, Princiotti was first violinist with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, a New Hampshire-based ensemble that specialized in the chamber music repertoire for piano and strings. As a member of Apple Hill, he performed 70-80 concerts annually throughout the United States and taught every summer at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. During this time, he also served as the music director and conductor of the Brandeis Symphony Orchestra. His other interests include running, hiking, tai-chi, motorcycles, eating at the Walpole Village Tavern and Burdick's Café and convincing his thirteen year-old daughter Nora that he is one swell guy.
