Conductor Anthony Bramall, a native of London, studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating with honours. There followed a two-year supplementary course in conducting with Vilem Tausky.

In 1981 Bramall moved to Germany to become assistant to the music director of the Stadttheater Pforzheim. In 1984 at the Third Hans Swarovsky International Conducting Competition in Vienna he was awarded the special prize for interpretation of music of the 20th century. Bramall débuted in 1987 with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at the Konzerthaus in Vienna—and the recording music market took notice: he recorded three CDs for the Naxos label with the Slovak Philharmonic and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Radio recordings with the RIAS Orchestra of Berlin followed. Conducting positions in Augsburg, Coburg and the Staatsoper Hannover afterward.

A milestone in Bramall’s career was his collaboration with the Semperoper Dresden, home of the world famous Staatskapelle: in 1992 he conducted the new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. This success was followed by engagements for La Bohème and La clemenza di Tito. In the summer of 2003 Bramall directed the première of Dresden’s new production of Madama Butterfly.

In 1995 Bramall was appointed general music director of the municipal theatres Krefeld and Mönchengladbach. At the same time his burgeoning career as a guest conductor—in Augsburg, Berlin, Bonn, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden as well as in Bratislava, Bucharest and Poznań—established his excellent reputation in Germany and neighbouring countries. In December 2003 he made his début in Japan with five concerts with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and in the summer of 2006, he conducted three concerts of the NHK Orchestra, Tokyo.

Bramall made his début at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in January 2004 with—once again—La Cenerentola. In February 2005, he first visited the USA with concerts in Charlotte, NC. In November, he débuted in Sweden with a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff in Gothenburg, and in April 2006 in Italy with seven performances of Die Walküre in Cagliari. Since then, he has returned five times to conduct symphony concerts at the Teatro Lirico.

In 2002 Bramall became general music director of the State-Theatre in Karlsruhe, where he began his first “Ring” in 2004 with the première of Das Rheingold. This was followed in October 2005 by Die Walküre, Siegfried in September 2006, and in December 2006 the Karlsruhe Ring cycle was completed with the première of Götterdämmerung. In October 2007 Bramall enjoyed an overwhelming success with the première of Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. At the end of the season 2007/8 he left the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and spent three years in Weimar as professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. As a freelance conductor, he was in-charge of new productions of The Pirates of Penzance and The Love for Three Oranges at the State-Theatre at the Gärtnerplatz in Munich; in February 2010 he returned to the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia to conduct a concert performance of the opera I Shardana by Ennio Porrino.

At the beginning of the season 2011/12 Bramall became permanent guest conductor at the Leipzig Opera, where he conducted a new production of Tosca with great success. Since the season 2012/13 he has been deputy general music director, where he conducted a new production of Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, produced by Dietrich Hilsdorf . In September 2013 he returned to Cagliari for a new stage production of I Shardana, produced by Davide Livermore. At the Leipzig Opera, he conducted the premières of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (February 2014) and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (April 2014), and Faust in 2015. In November 2016 he will make his début at the Komische Oper Berlin conducting the new production of Peter Pan by Richard Ayres.