Anton began piano lessons at the age of 8 with Professor Victor Makarov at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM), where he was awarded a scholarship and later studied with Illya Zozulya, Katya Makarova, and Alexey Koltakov. He attended the highly selective Sydney Grammar School, completing his HSC, and eventually pursued tertiary study in Italy at the Conservatorio Pierluigi da Palestrina with Ida Allegretto, being admitted with full marks.
 

Upon returning to Sydney, he completed his Bachelor of Music Studies (Honours Class I) under Professor Neal Peres Da Costa (Off the Record, Oxford University Press, 2012) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM), where he was awarded the Patricia Bell Grant.

 

At only age 24, he was appointed Research Assistant to Professor Peres Da Costa on the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project: Deciphering nineteenth-century pianism: invigorating global practices (DP 170101976), and commenced doctoral research under his supervision. He is a recipient of the University of Sydney's George Henderson Scholarship.

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Bredow has been on the organisational committee of two major international research symposia with Professor Peres Da Costa and Emeritus Professor Clive Brown (Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750–1900, Oxford University Press, 1999).

 

Bredow's research interests focus on nineteenth-century pianism and curriculum reform in primary and secondary music education.

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From 2021 to 2024, he served as Head of Music at a leading Swiss international boarding school, overseeing departmental restructuring across curriculum, staffing, and student placement. 

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Anton currently lives in Switzerland with his wife and two daughters.