Maria Fuller

Conductor

Canadian Conductor Maria Fuller is one of Canada’s captivating musical personalities. Described as a polymath, Maria performs internationally as a conductor, trumpeter, and pianist and is also an acclaimed vocal coach, award-winning composer and sought after arranger. She conducts the symphonic, ballet and operatic repertoire, is a thoughtful curator of family and educational programs, and is also an arranger and composer of fresh cinematic music containing a “new baroque” twist. Last December her oratorio “The Christmas Messiah” had its world premier in Calgary with Ammolite Opera and she continues to work on commissions while traveling. In all that she does, Maria “radiates energy” (Ruch Muzyczny) and is gaining a reputation for her “vivid imagination, energetic personality” (Kalejdoskop) “precise gesture, and sensitivity to detail” (Ruch Muzyczny).

She is currently the Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Belgium, as well as the Founding Music Director of Ammolite Opera, Calgary, with whom she has received four Betty Mitchell Award nominations after two years of existence. Her highlights from last season include several productions at the Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland, a mentorship with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitan, and working at the Narodní Divadlo, Prague, as a Finalist Prize from the 11th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition, Poland. This season her debuts are with the Filharmonia Opolska, Okanagan Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Rochester Philharmonic, and the Rocky Mountain Symphony. This February, Maria looks forward to performing the music of Bach on piano across western Canada with CBC Radio Host Tom Allen on his show: “J.S Bach’s Long Walk.”