Biography
Anton Giacomo Bredow began piano studies at age 8 with Professor Victor Makarov at the Australian Institute of Music, later studying with Illya Zozulya, Katya Makarova, and Alexey Koltakov.
He completed his secondary education at Sydney Grammar School before undertaking tertiary music studies at the Conservatorio Pierluigi da Palestrina in Cagliari, Italy, under Ida Allegretto, being admitted with full marks.
He returned to Sydney to complete a Bachelor of Music Studies (Honours Class I) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Professor Neal Peres Da Costa (Off the Record, Oxford University Press, 2012), receiving the Patricia Bell Grant.
At 24, he was appointed Research Assistant to Peres Da Costa on the ARC Discovery Project Deciphering Nineteenth-Century Pianism: Invigorating Global Practices (DP170101976) and began doctoral research under his supervision. He is a recipient of the University of Sydney’s George Henderson Scholarship.
Bredow’s training in the Russian tradition reaches its highest echelon through Professor Victor Makarov, himself a student of Regina Horowitz - the sister of the renowned Vladimir Horowitz. Shaped by this lineage, Bredow seeks to integrate its technical and expressive ideals with a rigorously research-led approach to performance.
Bredow has served on the organising committee of international research symposia with esteemed authors such as Peres Da Costa and Emeritus Professor Clive Brown (Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750–1900, Oxford University Press, 1999).
His research focuses on nineteenth-century pianism and, more recently, curriculum reform in primary and secondary music education.
From 2021 to 2025, Bredow served as Head of Music at a Swiss international boarding school, pursuing the opportunity to apply research-driven pedagogy.
Outside of Music, Anton has a keen interest in sports, having represented Australia in Ironman Triathlon, as well as being an avid skier and swimmer.
He currently lives in Switzerland with his wife and two daughters.
