Victoria Symphony
The Victoria Symphony
is Vancouver Island’s premiere performing arts organization. Now in its 62nd
year of operation, the orchestra is recognized as one of Canada’s finest
full-time professional ensembles.
The
orchestra primarily serves the greater Victoria region, but makes frequent
visits to many smaller centres across the island, as part of an ongoing
effort to make its passionate music-making more accessible.
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 Tania Miller
Tania
Miller's appointment as Music Director of the Victoria Symphony confirms her
reputation as a consummate musician and leader. Recently named Associate
Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for the 2003 – 2004 season,
Tania had already served three seasons as Assistant Conductor, leading
approximately thirty-five concerts in the past season alone across a variety
of series.
She is the conductor of the Toronto contemporary ensemble ERGO, with whom
she premiered a number of compositions in Munich, Toronto and New York.
Tania Miller was the Assistant Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival in
Carmel, California from 1997 – 2001, where she worked closely with
internationally renown conductor Bruno Weil and many of the world’s leading
Baroque artists. Tania was Artistic Director of Michigan Opera Works in Ann
Arbor, Michigan from 1997 – 2000 and conductor of Detroit's Friends of
Opera, where she lead productions of La Boheme, Semele, The Rape of Lucretia,
Cosi fan Tutte and Dido and Aeneas.
She
conducted Opera McGill's productions in Montreal in 1999 and 2000 of Les
Contes d'Hoffmann and Le Nozze di Figaro. Miller's guest conducting has
taken her to work with various orchestras across Canada and the United
States including the Toronto, Winnipeg, Oregon, Victoria, Toledo, London,
and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestras. Tania completed a D.M.A and Master's
degree in conducting from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
At the age of thirty-three Tania is the youngest current Music Director
of a major Canadian orchestra, and the first woman to be appointed to such a
significant post in the history of the industry in Canada. Tania, who hails
from Saskatchewan, is one of two Canadian-born conductors leading major
orchestras in the country, the other being Peter Oundjian of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra. |
