Miah Im

Miah Im, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is currently the principal coach and conductor for the University of Toronto Opera School. She was formerly the Music Director of the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland, and co-ran the program with Artistic Director, Leon Major. She has served on the faculties and/or music staffs at the Aspen Music Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, the Juilliard School, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy (CO-SI).

Ms. Im has conducted Don Giovanni, La Mondo della Luna, and Il Segreto Matrimonio in Toronto and recently worked at the Ravinia Festival in Das klagende Lied, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Cosi fan tutte with an all-star cast that included Frederica von Stade, Ana Maria Martinez, John Relyea, and Richard Stilwell. Career highlights include participation in La Traviata, The Cunning Little Vixen, La Bohème, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trittico and Béatrice and Bénédict. Ms. Im served as pianist-harpsichordist with the Chicago Symphony for Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis under James Conlon, and has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, and New World Symphony.

Ms. Im was the inaugural recipient of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award for Vocal Accompanying. She was a featured artist on the Foundation’s Gala Concert at Lincoln Center and made her New York recital debut playing on the "On Wings of Song" recital series at the Kosciuszko Foundation. She has been featured on WQXR radio in New York City, NPR, on CBC radio, and on CBS Sunday Morning. She was the youngest Music Director ever appointed to the San Diego Opera Young Artists Program, and she has worked with conductors Julius Rudel, George Manahan, Jahja Ling, Stephen Lord, Eduardo Müller, Patrick Summers, David Robertson and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, among others.

Recent engagements include conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the University of Maryland and a world premiere by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and violin soloist Jennifer Koh with a libretto based on the poetry of her late father.

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