Antony Walker is Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera and Artistic Director of Washington Concert Opera in D.C..  Since making his debut in Sydney, Australia in 1992, Maestro Walker has conducted over 100 operas, as well as large scale choral orchestra/symphonic works with companies and orchestras in Australia, the U.S., Asia, the UK and Europe.  He has led operatic performances for The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Opera Australia, Opera di Firenze, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Sante Fe Opera, and New York City Opera, amongst others.  Symphonic engagements include a recent debut with the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, as well as the Orchestre Colonne in Paris, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Sinfonia Australis, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, and the Sunflower Festival in Topeka, KS.  Maestro Walker is also the founding Artistic Director and now Conductor Emeritus of the award-winning Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, and has recorded over 40 CD’s, many of which are rarely performed operas, on ABC Classics.