“This weekend, in her last concerts as music director of the Victoria Symphony, Tania Miller has chosen a program well suited to the occasion, one in which old friends and favourite repertoire again figure prominently,” writes Kevin Bazzana in Friday’s (5/12) Times Colonist (British Columbia). “She will underscore, one last time, her admirable devotion to new music and young Canadian composers, by giving the première of a piece by Jared Miller, whose three-season tenure as the orchestra’s composer-in-residence is also coming to an end. The first time Miller led the Victoria Symphony, as a guest conductor in February 2003, her program included a Shostakovich violin concerto and a Tchaikovsky symphony. This weekend, she will focus on the same two composers.… In Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, she will welcome another soloist with whom she has a special connection: Timothy Chooi, who was born and raised here and was selected by Miller as a Young Soloist in the 2007 Splash concert.… Miller will bring her tenure to an end with Shostakovich’s moving and heroic (though also ambivalent) Symphony No. 5, from 1937.… She has always performed music by early-modern composers like these (and Nielsen, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bartók) stylishly and with authority.”
Posted May 12, 2017
