Conductor Anthony Trecek-King is Resident Conductor of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society and Artistic Director of Berkshire Choral International. Trained as a cellist and an orchestral conductor before taking his doctorate in choral conducting, he brings to the podium what the Boston Classical Review has called readings “richly blended, rhythmically taut, and thoroughly characterful.”

With the Handel and Haydn Society, Anthony has conducted the period-instrument orchestra and chorus at Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, including Crossing the Deep, the program he created with countertenor Reginald Mobley that sets Handel’s Chandos Anthems beside spirituals. With Berkshire Choral International he leads festival performances with professional orchestras, from Mozart’s Coronation Mass in Denver to Brahms and Copland in Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall. He has guest conducted the Back Bay Chorale, Cantata Singers, Seraphic Fire, the Houston Chamber Choir, and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and ensembles in Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Norway, and has appeared in the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Sydney Opera House.

Anthony led the Boston Children’s Chorus for fourteen years, created and hosts the syndicated radio series The Silent Canon, and was host of WGBH’s Emmy-nominated Sing That Thing. His arrangements are published by Walton Music and VOCES8 Publishing. He holds degrees in cello performance, orchestral conducting, and choral conducting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Florida State University, and Boston University.

BACH

Christmas Oratorio— “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen” (Cantata V) Cantata Singers | First Church in Cambridge | December 2021

“This ’Ehre sei dir Gott’ was consistently well-directed, its orchestral accompaniments limber.”—Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical Review

BONDS

The Ballad of the Brown King | Cantata Singers | First Church in Cambridge | December 2021

“Sunday’s performance, the Singers’ debut traversal of the piece, was winning. Trecek-King’s readingwas richly blended, rhythmically taut, and thoroughly characterful. All of it–from the noble introduction andmeditative ’They Brought Fine Gifts’ to the rousing final cadence–danced.” —Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical Review

HANDEL

Israel in Egypt | Back Bay Chorale (guest conductor) | Sanders Theatre, Cambridge | 2023

“Trecek-King presided in poise, refinement, and apparent delight over the very well-received concert.”—Lee Eiseman, The Boston Musical Intelligencer

GENERAL

Handel and Haydn Society — Crossing the Deep (Jordan Hall, Boston, 2025)“...in the spirituals, he transformed into an unforgettable dancing, foot-stomping cajoler; the soloists calledand chorus responded with authentic-feeling moans, hollers, handclapping, and foot-stomping.”—Lee Eiseman, The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Seraphic Fire — A Seraphic Fire Christmas (St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Miami)

“He brought something magical out of the choir, which was always carefully controlled but utterlycaptivating.” — Jacob Mason, South Florida Classical Review

Seraphic Fire

“Anthony Trecek-King is so full of energy and life. He is a brilliant musician and knows how to get the bestpossible sound out of Seraphic Fire. He will bring a unique sense of musicality and joy to this holidayseason.” — Patrick Dupré Quigley, Seraphic Fire Founder & Artistic Director

Cantata Singers — Of All Kings (First Church in Cambridge) “In most of the afternoon’s unaccompanied fare, though, Trecek-King drew singing of balance, tonalblend, and projection from the Cantata Singers that were marvels of expressive and technical focus.” — Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical Review