Anu Tali has announced that at the end of the 2018/2019 season, following the completion of her current contract, she will step down as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra to focus on her international career and guest conducting. Tali will have served as music director for six seasons. Tali’s accomplishments with the Sarasota Orchestra are noteworthy. Since joining the organization in 2013, she has attracted an extraordinary group of guest artists from around the world, including the multi-Grammy Award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. She conducted the American premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Strata and performed the debut performances in Florida of Heiner Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I Have Seen. Tali’s first three-year contract with the Sarasota Orchestra began in 2013.  In 2016, her contract was extended an additional three years through the spring of 2019.

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