Anthony Halliday
Anthony Halliday is an Australian concert pianist, organist and composer. A Churchill Fellow and Commonwealth Winner of the ABC Concerto Competition, he is noted for virtuoso organ transcriptions and wide-ranging recital programmes.
Anthony has given numerous piano and organ recitals and concerto performances throughout Europe and Australasia, among them Westminster and St Paul’s Cathedrals in London, Cologne Cathedral, St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Concert Hall. He has also performed in the presence of Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, Cardinal Hume of Westminster and other dignitaries.
He is a composer as well as a performer. His works have been heard in Berlin, London, Rome and Melbourne. His recording Piano Masterworks includes music by Handel, Beethoven, Liszt and Shafton; other discs include A Piano Recital and Celebrated Organ Masterpieces. He has also recorded all thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas.
In the eight-part series Beethoven and Friends at the German Lutheran Trinity Church in Melbourne in 2007–2008 he performed the complete forty-eight preludes and fugues of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier alongside works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Czerny, Hummel, Shafton, C.P.E. Bach, Chopin and Schubert.
In the 2010–2011 season he appeared again at venues in Germany (including the Cologne International Organ Festival), Spain, Italy, Ireland and England.
Anthony Halliday is featured on the following titles
Anthony Halliday plays Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Duruflé, Bach
Few Australian musicians match Anthony Halliday’s versatile splendour. This latest of his all-too-few organ CDs emphasises his gifts in transcribing orchestral works, recorded on the organ of St Francis’ Church, Melbourne.
Lobe den Herren
Anthony Halliday gives a varied organ recital on the historic instrument at Melbourne's Trinity Lutheran Church. The programme runs from grand Bach works through Mozart and a Bach–Vivaldi concerto to his own transcription of the finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
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