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Music Director: Nordic Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali started her musical training as a pianist, graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1991 and continued her studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory as a conductor. Together with her twin sister Kadri, she founded the Nordic Symphony Orchestra in 1997. Today the Nordic Symphony Orchestra has members from fifteen countries, bringing together musicians from the world’s leading orchestras. Highlights of the current season include a production of Carmen at Magdeburg State Opera, engagements with the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Madison Symphony Orchestra and Mozarteumorchester; as well as performances of Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I Have Seen in Barcelona, Seattle and with the London Sinfonietta at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Reviews
“The young Estonian Anu Tali… showed excellent command.” (The New York Times, January 2009)
“[Tali] proved to be an immensely distinctive interpreter, regulating her objectives as insistent as natural. The symphony… was shaped in a dynamic, sparkling, humorous and structurally highly clear way.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 2007)
“Anu Tali, the impressive Estonian conductor, showed her creative power particularly in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. She modelled the sound of the orchestra with relish, determined and accurate: she formed the music exactly following her imagination. Her powerful and effective movements passed on immediately to the musicians, whose joy of playing was apparent in every second.” (Frankfurter Neue Presse, October 2007)







