TARDIF, Melissa

Melissa Tardif is a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and music educator based in Montreal. She studied music education at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, graduating in 2019, and earned a master's degree in conducting from McGill in 2021. Trained as a jazz saxophonist, Tardif has developed a particular interest in film, video game, and Japanese anime music and has composed and arranged music alongside her work as a conductor and educator. In 2019, she founded L'Orchestre d'Anime de Montréal, an ensemble specializing in orchestral performances of music from Japanese anime.