He has been a professional musician since the age of seven when, as a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, he sang at the coronation of George VI. After studying viola and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and freelancing in both disciplines, he joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company as chorus master and conductor. He was Music Director of the London University Orchestra and conducted for Ballet Rambert in England, and the Edinburgh International Festival Ballet on its European tour. In Rome’s Teatro Eliseo he conducted opera, and in London started the still extant UC Opera.

He came to New York to be Associate Director of the Goldovsky Opera Institute and, after CIM, taught at the University of Texas in Austin and Rice University in Houston. In retirement, he started the Columbia (MO) Civic Orchestra, which he will return to conduct later in November.

He has produced English versions of many operas, edited four volumes of Boris Goldovsky’s The Adult Mozart, and is author of Staging the Music, a guide for Opera Directors and Singers, published by the National Opera Association.

Since 2004 he has been artist-in-residence with the orchestra at Brush High School in the South Euclid-Lyndhurst school system. Music he has arranged for the High School string players is listed on his website, anthonyaddison.com, together with various operatic translations and teaching materials. His "Variations on Three Familiar Tunes" for young violinists was performed by the Missouri Symphony Society in their 2006 summer season and, in January 2008 he will be attending the European premiere in Erlangen of his orchestration of Elgar's Organ Sonata