Although known primarily as a horn player and more recently a conductor, Tony Halstead has been active as a keyboard player for many years. His first major recording project other than as a horn player, the complete cycle of Johann Christian Bach’s 15 fortepiano concertos and 12 harpsichord concertos, with The Hanover Band, was for the German record company cpo.
Soloists and conductors with whom he has collaborated as a continuo player include Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood, Gidon Kremer, Julian Lloyd Webber, Simon Standage, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Benedict Preece, Pinchas Zukerman and many others.
As a ‘modern’ pianist Tony has played recitals with instrumentalists Hermann Baumann, William Bennett, Christian Halstead, Frank Lloyd, Thomas Martin, Stephen Stirling, Michael Thompson, Radovan Vlatković, Richard Watkins, and the late Alan Civil, Ifor James and Barry Tuckwell.