- Anthony Pleeth
Anthony Pleeth, born in 1948 in
London , is an Englishcellist , specialising in the historically-informed performance of music of the 18th and 19th centuries on period instruments.Biography and Career
He studied
cello with his father, renowned cellistWilliam Pleeth , at theGuildhall School of Music and Drama , where he was the Gold Medallist in 1966. He made his first recording for theBBC at the age of 13. He was a founder of the Galliard Trio (withTrevor Pinnock ,harpsichord andStephen Preston ,flute ), with which he performed from 1965 to its disbanding in 1972.He was the principal cellist of
The Academy of Ancient Music , and later ofThe English Concert , leaving in 1985, but remaining a member of the English Concert Chamber Group until 1991. His recordings have included cello concertos byVivaldi with The English Concert and The Academy of Ancient Music as well as being the cello soloist in many orchestral pieces and concerti grossi with these two orchestras. He has recorded the complete cello sonatas ofGeminiani (withChristopher Hogwood ) andVivaldi (with Robert Woolley and Suki Towb), trio sonatas byHandel and Corelli and chamber music byJ. C. Bach with the English Concert Chamber Group. With fortepianistMelvyn Tan , he recordedBeethoven 's complete sonatas and variations forcello andpiano . His musical insterests are not limited to period performance; he plays modern cello and his cello ensemble has performed and recorded "Bachianas Brasileiras" 1 and 5.He was appointed professor of cello at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1969 and at the
Royal College of Music in 1986.Aside from Classical appearances, he has also been on many film soundtracks, such as
We Were Soldiers byNick Glennie-Smith andGladiator byHans Zimmer andLisa Gerrard .
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