Țabor Silvia

About

Musical conductor and founder of the Montreal Intercultural Orchestra, Silvia Tabor has attracted attention for her intense musicality, youthful vibrancy, astonishing versatility, assured technique, and charismatic stage presence. Her conducting repertoire spans a wide range of musical styles, encompassing all eras from Baroque to contemporary music, symphonic and chamber orchestra repertoire, operas, and ballets. Under her baton, the Montreal Intercultural Orchestra has performed ambitious programs, including major works such as Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Spring Cantata, Boris Pigovat's Holocaust Requiem, and many other captivating masterpieces by Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Enescu, Pozdnyakov, Szymanowski, and Karlovic, among others, including premieres by contemporary composers. Already known in Canada as a very promising conductor of the new generation, Ms. Tabor is rapidly gaining recognition as a major talent on the international stage. She has collaborated with various symphony and chamber orchestras, including: the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova), the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Burgas State Opera (Burgas, Bulgaria), the Beethoven Orchestra (Montreal, Canada), the McGill Wind Orchestra (Montreal, Canada), the University of Montreal Orchestra, the Rose City Chamber Orchestra (Portland, Oregon, USA), and others. After graduating from the St. Neaga College of Music (Music Theory) and the Academy of Music, Theatre, and Fine Arts (Conducting) in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, Silvia moved to Montreal, Canada, where she continued her conducting studies, earning a master's degree from McGill University. Ms. Tabor also holds a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of Montreal, where the subject of her doctoral thesis was Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov – The Value of Mussorgsky's Original Orchestration and the Importance of Rimsky-Korsakov's and Shostakovich's Reorchestrations. In 2010, Silvia won the Special Prize of the National Philharmonic of Moldova "Serghei Lunchevici" at the International Orchestral Conducting Competition held in Chisinau. She also participated in various competitions in Moldova, Romania, Spain, France, Canada, and the USA, and attended a series of masterclasses worldwide, working with renowned conductors such as Alexander Polyanichko (conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg), Leonid Korchmar (conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg), Dejan Savic (conductor and current director at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia), Kenneth Kiesler and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, Canada), Christopher Zimmerman, David Hoose, and Alexis Houser, among others. An important role in Silvia's career development was played by the support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, both institutions granting her generous scholarships to carry out various projects in Russia, Bulgaria, Spain, the USA, Canada, and Moldova.