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Date February 16th, 2024 Time 7:30pm Venue UIS Performing Arts Center - Springfield

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Tania Miller, Conductor | Timothy Chooi, Violin

Beethoven Leonore Overture #3 – Barber Violin Concerto – Nielsen Symphony No. 5

Join us for a pre-concert discussion with conductor candidate Tania Miller! And, join us after the concert for our Play On After Party and meet conductor candidate Tania Miller.

Tickets: $63 / $42 / $21
Students (24 & Under): $10

Springfield

Friday, February 16, 2024 @ 7:30 PM
UIS Performing Arts Center
Concert Comments @ 6:30 PM

Bloomington-Normal

Saturday, February 17, 2024 @ 7:30 PM
ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Concert Comments @ 6:30 PM

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Your Illinois Symphony Orchestra performs Symphony Orchestra and Pops concerts at the UIS Performing Arts Center in Sangamon Auditorium.

Physical Address:
220 Ernest Hemingway Dr | Springfield, IL 62703

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UIS Ticket Office Information

Tickets for all Illinois Symphony Orchestra season concerts are sold through the UIS Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased by in-person, by phone, or online.

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Phone: (217) 206-6160
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Tania Miller Conductor

Canadian Conductor Tania Miller has distinguished herself as a dynamic interpreter, musician and innovator. Former Music Director of Canada’s Victoria Symphony for 14-years, subsequently she was named Music Director Emerita for her commitment to the orchestra and community.

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, colorful and full of life . . . her experience and charisma are audible.” Others call her performances “technically immaculate, vivid and stirring”.

She served as interim Principal Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic for the 2022-2023 season and also made debuts with the Warsaw Philharmonic, I Musici de Montreal, the New Haven Symphony and Springfield (MA) Symphony. She has conducted the Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra at the World Orchestra Festival in Daegu, South Korea, with concerts in Daegu, Hwaseong, and Seoul and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul. Maestra 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, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Naples Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Madison Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and numerous others.

Maestra Miller conducted Calgary Opera’s recent production of Lehar’s Merry Widow and will lead The Magic Flute at Vancouver Opera next season.