Born and raised in a musical family on the island of Trinidad, in the Southern Caribbean, music was a natural progression for Anthony Woodroffe Jr. His father Tony Woodroffe Snr., a renowned local trumpeter and educator and mother Jean, soloist singer with iconic local folk choir La Petite Musicale, raised him to pursue his personal ambitions and not their own wishes for him.

A student of Fatima College, it is there that his natural ability as an instrumentalist became evident. It was during his tenure at the college that he entered the Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival in 1999 and won several classes playing saxophone, flute, clarinet and recorder and at the championship level was named best junior instrumentalist and most outstanding wind instrumentalist.

After travelling to London in 2001 to perform with Ebony Steel Orchestra at a summer festival in Hyde Park and meeting Courtney Pine at one of his gigs at the Jazz Café in Camden, Anthony decided that jazz was the direction he wanted to take his playing.

In August 2005, with the support of family he made the move to London to audition for a place on a Music Degree program. In September 2006, Anthony enrolled in the BA (Hons) Music (Jazz) Studies degree at the esteemed Leeds College of Music in the United Kingdom. He has since had the opportunity to play under the tutelage of great musicians including Omar Puente-Cuban jazz violinist, who frequently gigs with Courtney Pine.

After completing his degree with honours in April 2010, he was featured with the Caribbean jazz group Élan Parle at the Tobago Jazz Festival. He later travelled with the group in 2012 to perform at the Jazz and Creole Festival in Dominica.

Anthony a.k.a. ‘Tony Paul’ is a first call musician on the local jazz scene both as a sideman and as a soloist and has performed extensively with Trinidadian Icons Ray Holman and Clive Zanda. He has a particular interest in the development and education of young musicians and has earned a Master of Music (M.Mus.) in music education from Boston University. He is currently on the teaching staff at the Academy of Performing Arts(APA) at the University of Trinidad and Tobago as a Senior Instructor of Woodwinds. Anthony also holds the position as the Leader of the Jazz and Contemporary Music Studio with the mandate to help develop the jazz curriculum at the APA.