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 and Sibelius’ symphonic music is written for larger orchestras, these works haven’t been heard in Halifax for years.”

The programs include a chamber music recital featuring SNS concertmaster Robert Uchida and pianist Peter Allen in works by Grieg and Sibelius, hosted by Gueller and former CBC host Adrian Hoffman; a sold-out concert of the music of Grieg, featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker; and an all-Sibelius program with Australian-American violinist Adele Anthony, featuring the Violin Concerto and the composer’s lush Symphony #2.