Julia Tai

As the featured guest cellist for the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s concert series, Amit Peled delivered a stirring live performance on Montana Public Radio.

Julia Tai, Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest conductor and musical director, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra visits with host John Floridis to discuss her musical journey from violinist to vocalist to conductor, her early childhood in Taipei and what it was like to take over the MSO at the dawn of a worldwide pandemic.

You'll hear famously terrifying music from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Berlioz and even some contemporary artists such as Stephen Sondheim, Danny Elfman and even ... an Elvis impersonator(!?)

Born in Taiwan, Julia Tai has quickly become one of the rising stars of the ensemble conducting world, and the Missoula Symphonic Orchestra and Chorale is…