Tanya Prochazka is professor of cello and chamber music and conductor of the Academy Strings and the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of Alberta. Originally from Australia, Tanya studied with Andre Navarra and Jean Hubeau at the Paris Conservatoire and at Indiana University with Janos Starker. Ms. Prochazka is an international soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. In her past musical lives she was the cellist of Ensemble I in Vienna, Austria and principal cellist of the Scottish Baroque Ensemble, the London Mozart Players and the English Sinfonia in Britain. Tanya also taught at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School in London, England, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, Australia. Tanya gives regular cello and chamber music masterclasses and orchestra clinics. She has an impressive discography featuring French, American, English and Czech music. Her world premier recording of the New Goldberg Variations with pianist Jacques Despres has been reviewed with great acclaim in the Strad Magazine, the National Post and other journals, and is played regularly on CBC and National Public Radio in the US. She recently performed the world premier of the cello concerto by Alfred Fisher, "La Rosa Enflorece", with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, in Kingston, Ontario, and the world premier of Malcolm Forsyth's Double Concerto for viola and cello with Rivka Golani and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent solo performances have been of all of Bach's Cello Suites in Edmonton and Cambridge, England, recitals in Pairs and Prague and a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto in London, England.

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