FETED conductor Anthony Inglis is returning home to the Isle of Wight, where he was born and raised, to talk about his new autobiography.

His book is entitled Sit Down, Stop Waving Your Arms About! and charts his stellar career.

He is giving a talk at the Island Sailing Club in Cowes, a club founded by his great grandfather Dr Percy Gibson.

Grammy nominated Inglis, the conductor who it has been said has featured more times at London's Royal Albert Hall than anyone else in the building's history, has been described in the UK press as 'one of Britain's most popular conductors'. 

Buy tickets to the event here: https://medinabookshop.com/event/anthony-inglis-author-talk-with-two-course-meal

Though born into the Royal Air Force with eight of his relatives, senior and distinguished pilots, his family history did not stop him from deciding at the age of six that he was going to conduct. 

Knowing academia was not for him, he battled to persuade his teachers and even his own parents that he did not need educating at expensive private schools.

In the end, they agreed and he left school early to study music.

His book tells his story, from a music scholarship at Marlborough College, then to The Royal College of Music.

He spent his early professional life conducting shows in the West End and the English National Ballet and Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet.

He progressed to an international career, appearing with some of the greatest orchestras in concert halls from New Zealand to Scotland via Japan and America.

He has conducted for the four main London independent orchestras - London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras, plus all the British independent and most BBC orchestras, the five main Australian orchestras, and the Gothenburg, Singapore symphony orchestras and Warsaw and Israel philharmonic orchestras.

He is currently music director of the London Concert Orchestra, the Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins and the music consultant/supervisor for Phantom of The Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre, a show he has been associated with since January 1987.

Organised by Medina Bookshop in Cowes, the event on Wednesday, May 10, at the Island Sailing Club, begins at 7pm with a glass of fizz, followed by a meal before the talk.