Staccato

Canadian Conductor Tania Miller guides us through a fascinating journey into the art of conducting. She discusses what’s it like for a conductor starting off when there’s no place to hide and learn what you’re doing except in front of an audience and if an orchestra can be a monster for a young conductor. Tania explains why she’s so passionate about classical music, how she brings out the best in an orchestra and what’s required to communicate with all the musicians in front of her so that her vision of the music is performed as she imagines it. She describes what she looks for when she’s recruiting talent and how the audition process for orchestra applicants is highly challenging – how in the bigger orchestras, there are so many people auditioning…sometimes a hundred applicants so, “you have to have something that really stands out then in order to be succeed.” Tania expresses her conviction about the importance of a music education in people’s lives – how “there’s opportunity to be creative and to soar a