Photo: Brenden Friesen

​Juliane Gallant is a conductor in the inaugural Tapestry Opera Women in Musical Leadership Fellowship, through which she has worked with Pacific Opera Victoria, Vancouver Opera, the Victoria Symphony, the Hamilton Philharmonic, the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and New Music Concerts.  She was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in 2019/2020. 

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​Juliane has worked as musical director for Gothic Opera (Le loup-garou/Le dernier sorcier), Highlands Opera Studio (Eugene Onegin),  HGO (La bohème), King’s Head Theatre (Carmen), Opera on Location (The Prodigal Son, Cinderella, Don Giovanni, Carmen, La traviata), St Paul’s Opera (Così fan tutte, Orphée aux enfers), Opera Up Close (Carmen, Music oft hath such a charm, Ulla’s Odyssey), Opera Mio (A Fantastic Bohemian: The Tales of Hoffmann revisited), and the Clapham Opera Festival (La bohème). She has also served as repetiteur for Magnetic Opera (The Medium), Rossini Young Artists (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar (Die Zauberflöte). She was a répétiteur for the Engender Weekend at the Royal Opera House in 2019, workshopping a new opera by a female composer/librettist team, and made her Royal Opera House conducting début in collaboration with Pegasus Opera, for their production of Mami Wata in the Linbury Studio as part of the 2021 Engender Weekend.

​Juliane was one of only twelve conductors selected for the first Women Conductors Course: Conducting for Opera, run by the Royal Opera House, the National Opera Studio and the Royal Philharmonic Society.  She has since taken part in online conducting courses with the Royal Opera House, studying with Sian Edwards and Jessica Cottis. Her current conducting mentors include Karen Kamensek, JoAnn Falletta and Rosemary Thomson.

Having first trained as a pianist, she studied Piano Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She also holds degrees from the Université de Moncton, the University of Ottawa, and the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique de Montréal. Juliane is a recipient of funding from the Opera Awards Foundation, the New Brunswick Arts Council, the Salters Company and the Leverhulme Trust. 

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Photo: Dahlia Katz