Emma Colette Moss

*** 2025-26: Currently On Leave***


Emma C. Tanovich (née: MOSS) is a Czech-Canadian orchestral conductor and pianist with a firm commitment to making music accessible to audiences. Currently a Doctor of Musical Arts student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Toronto, her studies are supported by the Victor Feldbrill Orchestral Conducting Award, University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, and Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada CGS-D Fellowship. Developing her expertise for well over 20 years, Emma has worked and studied with prominent conductors such as Tania Miller, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kenneth Kiesler, Daniel Raiskin, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Martin Macdonald.

In the past two years, Emma has served as Assistant Conductor of the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, Oakville Symphony, University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Pax Christi Chorale, amongst others. In 2023, she was invited to conduct the Medomak Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in the 2023 RBC Canadian Conductor Showcase. In the same year, she was Apprentice Conductor to Michael Newnham at Orchestra Toronto. In 2024, Emma was named Assistant Conductor to Tania Miller at the Boris Brott Festival, was invited to serve as Director of the Kawartha Youth Symphony Orchestra, and admitted on scholarship to the Conducting Program at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix (declined: NAO). In these same years, Emma has been entrusted by the Canada Council for the Arts to be a Peer Assessor for major awards such as the Virginia Parker Prize. From 2025 to 2027, Emma joins the Fourth Cohort at the prestigious Orchestre Métropolitain Orchestral Conducting Academy under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

An energetic, socially engaged, and perceptive emerging symphonic conductor with a memorable warmth, Emma Tanovich has shown herself to be a flexible, passionate, and active artist of note having conducted all genres, from symphonic works, opera, and choral-orchestral to popular music, musical theatre, and historical performance. Emma holds both an Honours Bachelor of Music in Composition & Piano Performance and Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Larysa Kuzmenko and Uri Mayer, respectively. She is also an active Junior Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto: a demonstration of her commitment to interdisciplinary research both in hypermetric conducting and Russian orchestral music in the mid-to late 19th century, previously earning her a Federal SSHRC Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) and Carol Rapp Bursary for the Arts from Massey College.