With much anticipation and excitement, Miranda Brant is thrilled to conduct the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra (MSO) for the third time from the stage of Hammerson Hall at the Living Arts Centre in the heart of the City of Mississauga! Miranda will lead the orchestra in a performance of “Variations on a Shaker Melody” from Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland.

Miranda started playing the piano at the precocious age of four with her Dad by her side and went on to practice and perform under the tutelage of Boris Zarankin, Inna Perkis, Diane Werner, Andrew Markov, Lynda Metelsky, and Ingrid Henderson. She eventually earned her ARCT in Piano Pedagogy. Miranda continued her studies in music at the University of Toronto by completing bachelor degrees in Music and in Education on the Concurrent Teacher Education Program (CTEP). There she acquired the music education skills of band, choral, and symphonic conducting with professors Ivars Taurins, and Hilary Apfelstadt. Parallel with her studies in music, Miranda accumulated university credits in the French language, culminating with a one-year stint studying at the Université Lumière Lyon II in France. Currently, Miranda teaches Grade 1 French Immersion in Brampton with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board and enjoys sharing her love of music with her students through song, dance, body percussion, and boomwhackers.

Miranda thanks MSO Music Director Denis Mastromonaco for allowing her to share the stage with the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. Miranda would also like to thank her parents, husband Ryan, and in-laws for their ongoing support and, in particular, her Dad who won the bidding war to conduct the MSO at the MSO’s silent auction fundraiser nearly 2 years ago.