Blake-Anthony started playing the cello at the age of 12, and was self-taught until the age of 18. He is a founding member and cellist in the Läc Quartet, which participated and gave their debut concert in the Aix-en-Provence Music Festival in Aix-en-Provence, France. The Läc Quartet also participated in the Festival international d’Art Lyrique et de Musique, and attended the Academie Europeenne de la Musiquein Aix-en-Provence. He has been a featured artist in the Atlanta's Young Artist Concert series in 2008, and won the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition the same year. Along with winning the 2010 TMTA MTNA Young Artist Competition, he is the winner of the 2012 Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition held at the Brevard Music Festival, and the 2012 Daniel Rains Concerto Competition in Cleveland, Ohio. Blake-Anthony participated in the Brevard Music Festival as a fellow the following summer. He is a recent graduate and Jean Keller Heard Prize for musical excellence recipient from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University under Felix Wang. Blake-Anthony currently studies and serves as a graduate assistant under Bryan Dumm and Alan Harrell of the Cleveland Orchestra.