Hailed as “a deeply musical conductor” (The Calgary Herald) and as “a ​ ​ ​ compelling leader who brings forth the best from his musicians” (Belgrade Radio), Anthony Princiotti has established an extensive ​ reputation as a conductor of extraordinary range and ability. As Principal Guest Conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 1999, he has led the ensemble in consistently­acclaimed performances encompassing a broad scope of repertoire in Masterworks Concerts, Symphonic Pops Tours and Educational Programs. Known as a persuasive advocate for the vitality and relevance of Western Classical Music, he has been praised as “a conductor whose practical, spirited scholarship makes the most complicated music seem accessible, in the best sense”.

A native of Connecticut, Anthony Princiotti began his musical training at the age of five, studying the violin with his father, the conductor and violinist Salvatore Princiotti. His musical sensibilities were further nurtured by his mother Carol, a classically­trained vocalist. As an undergraduate, he was a full­scholarship student at The Juilliard School, where he studied the violin with Oscar Shumsky, viola with William Lincer and conducting with Sixten Ehrling and Alfred Wallenstein as a member of Juilliard's prestigious Conducting Program. Upon his graduation from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Music degree, Princiotti joined the New Hampshire­based Apple Hill Chamber Players, serving as the ensemble's first violinist and performing 75 to 100 concerts annually in venues throughout the United States. It was during his time at Apple Hill that he developed a passion for music education and a strong commitment to bringing Western Classical Music performance to traditionally under­served areas. While on sabbatical from Apple Hill, he rekindled his interest in conducting; he was awarded a Conducting Fellowship by the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied with Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier and Seiji Ozawa. Upon the urging of Maestro Meier, Princiotti left Apple Hill to continue his conducting studies at the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Eleazar de Carvalho, Gunther Herbig and Jorma Panula, and was a recipient of the Marshall Bartholomew Scholarship, the Charles Ives Scholarship and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize. It was through his studies at Yale that he developed an interest in scholarship as a means of exploring the humanistic impulses that inspire great works of musical art, an orientation that continues to inform his activities as a musician, teacher and writer. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale in 1998.

Following a stint as Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra, Princiotti returned to New Hampshire to assume the positions of Conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra and Senior Lecturer in Music at Dartmouth College. During a twenty­three year tenure at Dartmouth, he set new standards for instrumental music­making. He transformed the Dartmouth Symphony, taking an ensemble with minimal student participation and developing it into a student orchestra that was capable of regularly performing the largest and most demanding works in the symphonic repertoire. He led the orchestra on two European tours, including a series of concerts in the former Yugoslavia that marked the first appearances by an American college orchestra in that region since the Balkan War. His work at Dartmouth was noted for providing young musicians at Dartmouth with an environment in which they could pursue their passion for music with seriousness and gain a deeper understanding of the history, structures and motivating purposes of music. He continues to serve Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Arts as a classical music consultant.

During his years at Dartmouth, Princiotti also served as Director of Instrumental Music at Amherst College, leading the College's Orchestra and Contemporary Ensemble. From 2001 to 2012, Princiotti was the Music Director and Conductor of the New Hampshire Philharmonic, where he was critically­lauded with taking the more than 100 year­old organization to new levels of artistic excellence. His activities as a guest conductor have included appearances with the Calgary Philharmonic, the New England String Ensemble, the Hartford Symphony, the San Paolo State Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Norfolk Festival Orchestra, the Pioneer Valley Symphony and the Young Artists Philharmonic. Maintaining his love for violin playing, he has released a highly­praised recording of Telemann's Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Violin, ​ the first by an American violinist. A devoted music scholar, he is the author of more than eighty articles about music.

In addition to his professional interests, Anthony Princiotti is an avid endurance cyclist, a marathon runner and an enthusiastic fan of Boston­area professional sports teams. He is an experienced radio broadcaster, having worked in radio stations with formats ranging from Rock to Country to Adult Contemporary, while also serving as a Classical Music Announcer at various Public Radio stations. He has produced more than 100 episodes of The Glass Bead Game, a program ​ ​ in which music from widely­varying genres is combined by referring to particular common musical characteristics and cultural themes. He is also the proud father of his intrepid daughter Nora, whose blossoming career as a sportswriter allows her to cover events in a wide variety of American sports citadels, thus providing her father with consistent vicarious pleasure.