Orchestras Canada

If you’re eligible to vote in the federal election on Monday, May 2 – we urge you to do so! Elections Canada has a resource rich website that provides everything would-be voters need to know, and you can visit it here: elections.ca.

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Massive symphonic spectaculars are all very well, but sometimes it’s nice to hear smaller ensemble repertoire performed in an intimate environment. If you agree with this assertion, it’s a good week or so in Canada! Here are some chamber orchestra/chamber ensemble highlights from member orchestras. The Windsor Symphony wraps up its 63rd concert season today, [...]

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Last week, the Winnipeg Foundation ran a “Ninety Hour Challenge”, in which donors were challenged to make special gifts to the endowment funds of favourite organizations with funds stewarded by the Foundation. Funds donated were then matched by the Winnipeg Foundation. We were delighted to read (on Facebook, where else?) that the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra [...]

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The Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and its busy Music Director Victor Sawa recently announced their 2011-12 season. Reflecting the SSO’s growing audiences, the program will include an additional concert added to each of the Masters and Pops series, and two additional concerts geared to children and youth Featured soloists include pianist Helen Kashap, the Beatles tribute [...]

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May 2 and 3, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Music Director Kent Nagano) continue their short but vital tradition of celebrating unique Canadians in the context of standard symphonic programs. This time, the OSM presents a concert of music by Liszt (with Yefim Bronfman in the Piano Concerto #2) and Shostakovich, enriched by the [...]

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Members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, their music director Alexander Mickelthwate, violinist James Ehnes and composer Randolph Peters are making the trip to Ottawa early next week to perform at the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival. Their concert will take place on May 3 at 8 p.m. The program features two major works by Tchaikovsky [...]

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This week, Symphony Nova Scotia and music director Bernhard Gueller celebrate the genius of Scandinavian composers Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius with a three-concert Scandinavian Festival. Carefully-programmed, closely-scheduled festival-style programming enables SNS to expand its on-stage forces to take on larger-scale works – and as the media release from SNS notes, “since much of Grieg [...]

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April 29 and 30, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (led by music director Roberto Minczuk) will double its performing forces to present Gustav Mahler’s Symphony #2, “Resurrection”. This is the work’s first hearing in Calgary in over ten years. The on-stage cast includes soprano Joni Henson and mezzo-soprano Susan Platts. The 100-voice Calgary Philharmonic Chorus (prepared [...]

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We continue to post program updates for the National Orchestras Meetings in Vancouver in June – and you can find the latest information about the gathering on our website, here. If electronic media and digital strategy interests you, we’ll spend time on that on Day 1, June 13. We’re especially excited about Revenue Day – [...]

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The Guelph Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of its new music director, Judith Yan. Yan is currently the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Newfoundland’s Opera on the Avalon. She has served as a Staff Conductor with the San Francisco Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, and the National Ballet of Canada. Speaking about her [...]

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