A Saskatoon music teacher will be front and centre during the next performance of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.
Principal flutist Allision Miller teaches full-time at the University of Saskatchewan and is one of the featured soloists for The SSO’s Carnival of Venice on Saturday. She says it’s incredibly important to be able to perform in a virtual way during the pandemic. “As musicians we work so much in the practise room and the key component of our own development is being able to share that music with other people, go through the process of performance itself and see that amalgamation of progress over time from the start of work to actually performing it.”

With the concerts being streamed live online this year, Miller says it’s very helpful for her students as it is a perspective they may not normally get, seeing things in context and then analyzing them after the fact.

Miller was born in Saskatoon, is in her second full season with the SSO. She says it’s very exciting to have her first opportunity to play a solo concerto with the symphony.

She says she has been preparing the Vivaldi concerto for flute and orchestra, and the three movement work was written in around 1728.

The performance called The Carnival of Venice can be viewed online on Saturday (Feb 27th) at 7:30 p.m.
The symphony’s website can be reached here.