Orchestras Canada

We’ve got a pair of presentations of Beethoven’s Symphony #9 to celebrate this week – and they’re each special in their own way. On Thursday, 31 March, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra led by Music Director Arthur Post caps a season-long 50th anniversary celebration by performing the iconic work with a stellar cast of soloists [...]

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Last week, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec announced its 2011-12 season, a season that features the orchestra’s first-ever Associate Artist, Alain Lefèvre, new series formats, new presentation formats, new pricing – and a diverse repertoire, too. As with any major orchestra’s season, there is far too much here to list in detail – but we’ll [...]

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We were delighted to read the following paragraph in a recent media release about this weekend’s concerts by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: Earth Hour at the Edmonton Symphony’s Masters Series Concerts At 8:30pm on March 26, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour. Earth Hour is raising awareness on climate change and [...]

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The Orchestre symphonique de Quebec made a number of announcements during its season launch on March 16 – and not all of these announcements pertained to the artistic programming plans for 2011-12, either. We were particularly taken by the orchestra’s announcement of a Sustainable Development Policy and Plan – something that, to our knowledge, is [...]

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In early April, the small Ontario town of Almonte will be alive with the sound of music, courtesy of the Gryphon Trio, composer Andrew Staniland and composer/creative resource Rob Kapilow. The Almonte project, entitled Listen Up!, has been designed by the Gryphon Trio to engage entire communities in the development of active listening and collaborative [...]

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Congratulations to the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil, which raised an impressive $150,000 for its foundation at its eleventh annual Wine Tasting event on March 17.

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Earlier this week, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra partnered with RBC and the University of Calgary in the gala finale of the RBC Concerto Competition at the University of Calgary. Five student musicians, Jennifer Billard, soprano, Matthew Blackburn, piano, Theresa Lane, violin, Scott MacIssac, piano and Devon Munro, saxophone, will gain the opportunity to further their [...]

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Bill C-470 passed its third reading in the House of Commons on March 8 and will now go to the Senate. If the bill passes the Senate, Canadian registered charities will have to disclose the names of executives and employees whose compensation is over $100,000 per year. This is a change from the previous amendment, [...]

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On Saturday, April 2, the Timmins Symphony Orchestra and music director Matthew Jones, present a concert that features local Timmins talent. Concertmaster Angela Garwood will perform Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto #1, Principal Viola Ariane Alexander will perform the same composer’s Kol Nidrei, Principal Horn Roy Takayesu will perform one of Richard Strauss’s Horn concerto, and [...]

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Symphony Nova Scotia has just announced the appointment of new Operations Director, Mhiran Faraday. She returns to her native Nova Scotia from Banff, where she has been working as Program Manager in the Music and Sound Department at the Banff Centre for the past number of years.

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