Orchestras Canada

On August 14, Orchestras Canada submitted a brief to the federal Standing Committee on Finance, as part of the pre-budget consultation process. The Standing Committee asked those submitting briefs to respond to two questions: 1. What federal tax and program spending measures are needed to ensure prosperity and a sustainable future for Canadians from an [...]

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The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is presenting its annual Symphony Under the Sky festival, September 4-7 at the city’s Hawrelak Park.  The festival comprises five outdoor concerts over the course of four days, and features the ESO with conductor Robert Bernhardt.  Programs range from established orchestral classics through opera and movie highlights, the world premiere of [...]

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The Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra starts a busy 2009-10 season with performances August 28 (in Halifax) and August 29 (in Lunenburg).  The concerts are the culmination of a ten-day end-of-summer intensive training session, and will be led by NSYO music director Dinuk Wijeratne.  The program includes Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (with soloist Jennifer Jones, a member [...]

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The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 2009 competition for the John Hobday Awards in Arts Management, with a deadline of September 30.  The two awards, aimed at both experienced managers and future leaders in arts management, offer up to $10,000 each for Professional Development/Renewal and Mentorship initiatives.  The guidelines have been revised [...]

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The Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2009-2010 season, and you can learn more about it and the orchestra here. Montreal’s Quatuor Molinari (Olga Ranzenhofer and Frédéric Bednarz, violins; Frédéric Lambert, viola; Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, cello) has just announced its thirteenth anniversary season – a season that contains three distinct series, and an intriguing range of [...]

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The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has appointed Carey Suleiman as Senior Counsel, Marketing. Carey will lead the TSO’s Marketing and Customer Service portfolios.  She joins the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from Marketing Directorship positions with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and more recently the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. In addition to graduate studies in arts management, she also holds [...]

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The Canada Revenue Agency has opened fall registration for its 2009 Charities Information Sessions for Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.  Given the new guidelines to fundraising recently announced by the CRA, we rate this as essential – and free – professional development.  You can learn [...]

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The Association of British Orchestras has recently released the results of a survey entitled “Live the Experience:  Concerts Given by ABO Orchestras in England for School Children and Young People.”  The survey, prepared by consultant Fiona Harvey, follows up on a ten-year commitment made by all eight Arts Council England-funded symphony orchestras in 2007 to [...]

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The end of summer typically sees Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at its annual residency at the Klang and Raum Festival in Irsee, Germany. This year, the orchestra opens its 2009-2010 season with not one, but two prestigious engagements at European summer festivals: they will perform at both the inaugural Reate Festival in Italy, as well as [...]

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Members of the PEI Symphony Orchestra are thrilled to be joining acclaimed Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman at the Indian River Festival this summer.  The concert will be on Sunday, August 23rd at 7:30 pm and will feature a chamber orchestra version of the PEISO.  It promises to be a summer event not to be missed.  [...]

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