Anthony McGill

Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has quickly earned the reputation of being one of classical music’s finest solo, chamber, and orchestral musicians. A winner of the highly prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, McGill was previously the Associate Principal Clarinetist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. An experienced chamber musician, he has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Sarasota Festival, La Musica, Tanglewood, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. This season he will appear with the Peabody Orchestra, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed with some of the great string quartets of the world, including the Guarneri, Tokyo, Shanghai, Miami, Brentano, Miró, and Daedalus quartets.