Anu Tali

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One of the most intriguing young conductors on the scene today, Anu Tali belongs to a new generation of artists who are searching for fresh musical ideas in the classical music world.

Music Director: Sarasota Orchestra
Music Director: Nordic Symphony Orchestra

Described by the Herald Tribune as “charismatic, brilliant, energetic”, Anu Tali is one of the most captivating conductors on the international scene today, belonging to a new generation of musicians who are constantly striving for fresh and ingenious artistic creativity.

Highlights of the 2021/22 season include a return to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as engagements with Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, National Philharmonic of Russia and Orchestra de Padova e del Veneto, to name a few.

Former Music Director of the Sarasota Orchestra in Florida, Anu Tali appears regularly with orchestras worldwide including the New Japan and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras, Orchestre National de France, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In Germany, she has worked with Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Konzerthausorchester, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Ensemble Modern.

In opera, Tali has had major success with the production of Carmen at Magdeburg State Opera and was invited to conduct the Freiburger Barockorchester in a production of Gluck’s Telemaco at the Schwetzingen Festival and Theater Basel. Another notable highlight includes acclaimed semi-staged performances of Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I Have Seen with ensembles including the London Sinfonietta at New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Southbank Centre and in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Seattle and Barcelona. In 2021, she made history as the first woman to conduct an opera at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, in the Calixto Bieito production of Carmen.

“Tali and the 27-year-old Czech pianist, Lukáš Vondráček, collaborated on a brilliant reading of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” bringing out inner voices and colors that made this work seem reborn. There were ripples of humor, stretches of passion and intense musicality that delineated the kind of music-making generally relegated to the best of chamber performances.”

(Herald-Tribune (Sarasota), November 2013)

“They were led by the brilliant young Estonian conductor Anu Tali […] Ms. Tali conducted grippingly.”

(The New York Times, March 2011)

“The performances are outstanding: Anu Tali already has a very high reputation, and this beautifully recorded and produced disc is without doubt another jewel in her crown.”

(Ivan Moody, International Record Review, January 2011)