Anthony Washington is a baritone and choral conductor currently pursuing a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. Washington currently serves as the first Assistant Conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum, assisting Grete Pedersen in all projects, most notably Haydn’s Creation with Juilliard 415.  Alongside Pedersen, he has studied with Jeffery Douma and Stefan Parkman. Washington previously served as Assistant Conductor of the Yale Camerata.

 

Washington has appeared as a conducting fellow in numerous choral festivals, among them the Sarteano Choral Workshop in Italy, the Choral Masterworks Institute at the Eastman School of Music, and the Montreal Choral Academy in Montreal, QC. In 2025, he served as the conducting apprentice for the Berkshire Choral International program in Berlin, Germany under Dr. Marie Bucoy-Calavan. In workshops and masterclasses across the United States and internationally, Washington has worked with renowned conductors including Simon Carrington, Jerry Blackstone, and Jean-Sébastien Vallée, and conducted leading ensembles including Cantus and Voices.

 

Washington is currently research assistant to Bach scholar Dr. Markus Rathey, aiding in a new project centered on the Protestant Reformation. In this role, Washington edits forthcoming articles, conducts literature reviews on numerous 16th-century and early 17th-century topics, and makes scholarly connections between the material cultures of various religious reformers including Müntzer, Karlstadt, and Löner. Previously, Washington was a research fellow for the Lisette Project, tracing the migration of various settings and arrangements of the oldest surviving Haitian creole text set to music during and after the Haitian Revolution across Europe and North America. His work was funded by the Cornell University Nexus Scholars Program. 

 

Washington graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Music and Anthropology from Cornell University. While at Cornell, he was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar and inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.