Tania Miller

{{Short description|Canadian conductor}}

{{For|the English actress|T'Nia Miller}}

Tania Miller (born August 28, 1969, in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan){{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tania-miller-emc/|title=Tania Miller|first=Sarah|last=Church|website=Encyclopedia of Music in Canada|accessdate=August 20, 2019}} is a Canadian conductor.

In October 2023, she was appointed Artistic Director and Conductor of Brott Music Festival and its two national Canadian training programs, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and BrottOpera.https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/music/tania-miller-to-lead-the-brott-music-festival/article_8c39588f-2c83-5231-8958-b7f3fed2b7c1.htmlhttps://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2023/10/24/scoop-brott-festival-names-conductor-tania-miller-artistic-director/ She is currently Music Director Emerita of the Victoria Symphony following her retirement as music director, a post she had held since 2003. Prior to that, she was Assistant Conductor (2000–03) and then Associate Conductor (2003–04) of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.{{cite web|url=http://taniamiller.com/|title=Tania Miller, Conductor|author=|date=|website=taniamiller.com}} At the time of her appointment to the Victoria Symphony, Miller was 33 years old, and was the youngest conductor of a major Canadian orchestra.{{cite web|url=http://www.birdsofafeather.ca/tania-miller-symphony|title=Tania Miller conductor Victoria Symphony Orchestra|author=|date=|website=birdsofafeather.ca}} She was also the first woman appointed to lead such an orchestra.{{cite news |title=Prairie girl to conductor: Tania Miller's musical journey lands on Winnipeg stage |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/prairie-girl-to-conductor-tania-miller-s-musical-journey-lands-on-winnipeg-stage-1.3880236 |work=CBC News |date=December 3, 2016}} She was named Interim Principal Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, following the death of music director Bramwell Tovey, in 2022.{{cite news |last1=Klamkin |first1=Steve |title=RI Philharmonic's conductor Tovey dies |url=https://www.997wpro.com/2022/07/13/ri-philharmonics-conductor-tovey-dies/ |work=WPRO |date=13 July 2022}}

Previous positions she has held include conductor and artistic director of Michigan Opera Works (Ann Arbor), conductor of Opera McGill (Montréal), conductor of the ERGO contemporary chamber ensemble, and assistant conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival (Carmel), 1997–2001. She has also made appearances conducting the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Orchestre Métropolitain, Toronto Symphony, Orchestra London, CBC Radio Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Naples Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Bern Symphony Orchestra and Vermont Symphony Orchestra.{{cite web |title=Meet Tania Miller, the VSO’s Third Music Director Candidate – Vermont Symphony Orchestra |url=https://www.vso.org/2022/03/02/meet-tania-miller-the-vsos-third-music-director-candidate/ |publisher=Vermont Symphony Orchestra}}

Miller grew up in Saskatchewan, where she began studying piano and organ at age 8. She became the organist and choir conductor at her church when she was 13. She received her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Saskatchewan in 1991, and received both her masters (1997) and doctoral (2000) degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two sons.{{cite news |last1=Devlin |first1=Mike |title=Tania Miller: Maestra back for Rachmaninoff |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/times-colonist/20180303/281522226588831 |work=Times Colonist |date=3 March 2018}}