Nathaniel Anderson-Frank is Leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
He has appeared with them as soloist at the 2019 and 2023 BBC Proms, as well as on tour around China and the UK, and is frequently featured on BBC television and Radio 2 and 3.
In recent years, Anderson-Frank has regularly been invited to guest lead the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; previously, he was Assistant Leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra. From 2013–2020, Anderson-Frank was a member of the prize-winning Piatti Quartet, recording critically-acclaimed albums and giving hundreds of concerts throughout the UK and Europe.
A committed educator, Anderson-Frank regularly coaches and examines students at the Royal Academy of Music and the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, where he has also held solo and chamber music fellowships. Anderson-Frank has been an orchestral tutor for the Orchestra of the Americas OAcademy and the I, Culture Orchestra Poland and has been invited to teach internationally in Mexico, Azerbaijan and Moldova. He was also a coach at the National Music Camp of Canada.
A native of Toronto now living in the UK, Anderson-Frank received his Master’s degree with the highest honours from the Royal Academy of Music as a full-scholarship pupil of Maurice Hasson. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree with academic honours from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Paul Kantor. He was made an Associate of the Academy in 2015.
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