Tony Bridgewater was appointed Director of Music at Old Swinford Hospital School in September 2003. He has travelled widely abroad with school ensembles, and took part in exchanges with La Costa Canyon High School, San Diego, in October 2000 and 2002. In 2005 the Old Swinford Choir sang for Sunday Mass in St Mark's Cathedral, Venice, and in 2007 he took the Old Swinford Choir and Concertband on an 8 day tour to Spain, where the choir was honoured to sing at Sunday midday Mass in Barcelona Cathedral and also at the famous Montserrat Abbey. He has also performed with his choirs in the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth.

Tony Bridgewater studied piano with Malcolm Wilson at the Birmingham School of Music and gained a B.A. in music at St John's College, Cambridge. He enjoys performing in chamber music, and has accompanied for the BBC Young Musician of the Year and Dudley Young Musician competition on many occasions. He has composed a range of music including pieces for Concertband and Choir, sonatas for violin, trumpet and cello, and a string quartet. His Second Piano Concerto is to be performed by the Central England Orchestra in 2010. He has also been the Musical Director of the North Worcester Operatic Society and was made President of the Stourbridge Choral and Orchestral Society in 2008, having previously conducted them for 6 years.