Piano and Organ Teacher

Mr. Anthony Halliday performs piano and organ concerts and ensemble performances annually in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Asia. His performances have garnered praise from several world-renowned conductors, including Walter Süsskind, who praised Mr. Halliday’s performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto as “astonishing.”

Mr. Halliday recently toured Europe, performing in venues such as St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Cologne Cathedral, Berlin, Noyes, Kleve, Paderborn, and Düsseldorf, as well as composing a large-scale piano symphony commissioned by the ancient city of Kleve and performing within the city. He has also performed in London’s Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, and St. Paul’s Cathedral. In Rome’s World Organ Festival, Mr. Halliday performed at St. Peter’s Basilica. His recent piano and organ recordings include works by Bach, Dürerflay, Vido, and his own compositions.

Mr. Halliday has long collaborated with St. Francis Church as the chief organist and serves as the director of St. Joseph’s Collegium at St. Joseph’s West Brunswick.

Mr. Halliday became the first performer outside Europe and the United States to be invited to perform the opening piece at the International Bach Organ Festival and had the honor of performing as the organist and pallbearer at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, described by the Leipzig media as one of the world’s finest organists. He has also performed at the International Organ Festival in Cologne Cathedral, festivals in Paderborn, Düsseldorf, and Kewral. In 2015, Mr. Halliday was described as the “Hercules of the piano keys” by Bonn.

Mr. Halliday has received numerous awards, including all research awards from the Royal College of Organists and the Silver Award from The Worshipful Company of Musicians in London. Just five years after studying piano, he won first place in Bartok’s Second Piano Concerto at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Commonwealth Symphony Competition.

In 2012, he collaborated with Sir Charles Mackerras to arrange a complex eight-piano triple fugue emphasizing piano-making for the celebration of the Steinway company at the Sydney Opera House. Mr. Halliday has also composed several commissioned pieces, including large-scale masses and hymns for choirs, symphony orchestras, and organs, Luther’s congregational hymns, and Easter anthems. Recently, Anthony has enjoyed being commissioned to arrange traditional Irish music for orchestral symphonies. He has recorded all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and performed all 48 preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier solely by memory.