7:30PM, Saturday, April 23, 2022
TCU Place, Sid Buckwold Theatre
35 – 22nd Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 0C8
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Tania Miller, conductor
Jane Coop, piano

 

Maestra Tania Miller returns home to Saskatchewan to lead the SSO in this energetic spring concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s iconic and sweeping Symphony No 5 – paired poignantly alongside Pyotr’s Dream by Canadian composer Andrew Balfour. Tchaikovsky’s life was one of constant inner turmoil; with his personal life silenced by society, Tchaikovksy’s music is outwardly romantic and stalwart in his conviction that the music speaks for itself.

Pianist Jane Coop, one of Canada’s most prominent and distinguished artists, returns to our stage to perform Mozart’s stunning Piano Concerto No. 24. A piece full of Mozartian twists and turns, the concerto will be a memorable highlight of the season!

In turbulent days, this concert acts as a chance to let music help us find our way back.

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The Program

Tania Miller & Jane Coop

Tania Miller, conductor
Jane Coop, piano
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

Pyotr’s Dream

Andrew Balfour

Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491

I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Allegretto

W. A. Mozart

~Intermission~

Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

I. Andante — Allegro con anima
II. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza
III. Valse. Allegro moderato
IV. Finale. Andante maestoso — Allegro vivace

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

Tania Miller

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Canadian Conductor Tania Miller has distinguished herself as a dynamic interpreter, musician and innovator. On the podium, Maestra Miller projects authority, dynamism and sheer love of the experience of making music. As one critic put it, she delivers calm intensity . . . expressive, colourful and full of life . . . her experience and charisma are audible.” Others call her performances “technically immaculate, vivid and stirring”.

Miller’s 21-22 season features debuts with the World Orchestra Festival in Daegu, South Korea with concerts in Daegu, Hwaseong, and Seoul with the Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra.  Miller recently debuted with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and will debut this season with Calgary Opera.  Recent engagements include L’Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the Vancouver Symphony and London Symphonia and this season she will conduct the Vermont Symphony, Elgin Symphony and Rockford Symphonies among others. Miller has appeared as a guest conductor in Canada, the United States and Europe with such orchestras as the Bern Symphony Orchestra, NFM Wroclåw Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestra Métropolitain de Montreal, Vancouver Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Madison Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic and numerous others.

Maestra Miller was Music Director of Canada’s Victoria Symphony for 14 years, and was named Music Director Emerita for her commitment to the orchestra and community.  She has distinguished herself as a visionary leader and innovator with a deep commitment to contemporary repertoire and composers and has gained a national reputation as a highly effective advocate and communicator for the arts. An avid writer about music and the arts, her writing has been featured in the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Symphony Magazine, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, and Better Humans.

Maestra Miller will conduct Calgary Opera next season, and has previously conducted numerous productions as Artistic Director of Michigan Opera Works (Rape of Lucretia, Semele, Dido and Aeneas), as Conductor of Opera McGill in Montreal (Tales of Hoffmann, Marriage of Figaro), as Assistant Conductor of University of Michigan Opera (Daughter of the Regiment, L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Le Rossignol, Magic Flute) and as assistant to Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of Eugene Onegin.  She was Assistant Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival for four seasons with Bruno Weil, and Assistant and Associate Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony from 2000-2004.

Ms. Miller has a Doctorate and Masters degree in Conducting from the University of Michigan.  Ms. Miller received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Royal Roads University, and an Honorary Fellowship Diploma from Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music for her commitment to leadership in community and music education. She was recipient of the 2017 Friends of Canadian Music award from the Canadian League of Composers for her dedication to the performance of contemporary music.

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Jane Coop

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Pianist Jane Coop, one of Canada’s most prominent and distinguished artists, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. For advanced studies her principal teachers were Anton Kuerti in Toronto and Leon Fleisher in Baltimore.

At the age of nineteen she won First Prize in the CBC’s national radio competition (the Young Performers Competition), and this, along with First Prize at the Washington International Competition, launched her career. In the early years she made recital debuts at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall (now called Weill Hall), and gave concerto performances with the Toronto Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic the Victoria Symphony and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. In 1976 she was invited to tour the New England States as soloist with Mario Bernardi and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada in Mozart’s Concerto in D minor, K.466.

Subsequently she has played in over twenty countries, in such eminent halls as the Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Beijing Concert Hall and the Salle Gaveau (Paris). In her own country she has given concerts from north to south: Whitehorse (Yukon) and Niagara Falls (ON), and from west to east: Tofino (BC) and St. John’s (Nfld) and many, many cities, towns and communities in between. She is in fact one of the few who has remained resident in Canada throughout her career.

Coop’s love of chamber music has led her to collaborate with artists from many parts of the world. Her longtime association with violinist Andrew Dawes, and her more recent partnership with cellist Antonio Lysy have given her the opportunity to delve into the sonata literature of Beethoven, a body of music to which she feels particularly drawn. Summer festivals in North America and Europe have provided venues for performances with the Manhattan, Miami, Audubon, Orford, Lafayette, Colorado, Seattle, Angeles and Pacifica String Quartets, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Winds, York Winds, and such luminaries as Barry Tuckwell, Jamie Somerville, Martin Beaver, Jeanne Baxtrasser and Michelle Zukovsky. Coop is a cherished faculty artist at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the oldest chamber festival in North America. There she collaborates in performances of much of the chamber music literature for piano and strings, and coaches brilliant young musicians from across the continent.

Her commitment to teaching is centred around her long time position at the University of British Columbia’s School of Music in Vancouver, where she was a senior professor and Head of the Piano Division. In 2003 she was designated Distinguished University Scholar by the university’s president, and in 2007 she received a Killam Teaching Award. In 1992 she was the founding Artistic Director of the Young Artists’ Experience – a summer chamber music program for students from the age of 14 to 18 which took place in Whistler, BC. Its mandate was to give the young people a wide exposure to art and life, thus offering in the daily schedule yoga, composition, poetry, philosophy and visual art as well as music.

Coop’s reputation has inspired international competition organizers to invite her to judge their events over the past fifteen years. She has served on the juries of the Kapell (Maryland), Dublin, Washington DC, Hilton Head, Honens, Gina Bachauer and the New York Piano Competitions. She has also been a jury member for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, the Glenn Gould Prize, the Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artists Grants and various Canada Council grant awards. Her sixteen recordings, three of which have been nominated for Juno awards, have garnered glowing reviews and have been heard on classical radio programs in many countries.

In December 2012, Jane Coop was appointed to the Order of Canada, our country’s highest honour for lifetime achievement. She was also appointed to the Order of British Columbia in May, 2019.

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This concert also includes:

Lauren Dykstra, Thayara Siqueira – violin 1
Kevin MacMillan, Sofia Mycyk – violin 2
Heather Wilson – viola
Terry Sturge,  Hans Deason – cello
Thomas Bauer – flute/piccolo
Samuel Dmyterko – horn
Dean McNeill – trumpet

 

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