Orchestras Canada

March 3, the Saskatoon Symphony and Saskatoon Opera are joining forces to co-host a gala that is billed as the “premier event of gala season”. A year in the making, the gala unites “the two most important classical performing arts organizations in the city,” says co-chair Mark Turner. “By combining forces, the Red and Black [...]

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The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has just kicked off its annual Adventures in Music program, through which over 15,000 Manitoba students in grades 4-6 are introduced to the orchestra. The program spans 10 concerts on six different days between February and May, and runs in Winnipeg and Brandon. It’s a logistical feat: over 450 students perform [...]

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After an extensive multi-year process, The Mississauga Symphony Orchestra is to continue its Music Director Search into 2013 and possibly beyond. The search, which began in 2010 when it was announced that John Barnum, the orchestra’s music director for the last 34 years, would be stepping down on completion of the 2011-2012 season, attracted over [...]

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Last Saturday – February 18 – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra made musical history by inviting Acadian hiphop group Radio Radio to perform with them in a gala fundraising performance in Moncton. The program was an enthusiastically-received mash-up of Radio Radio material (arranged for the group and orchestra by Chris Palmer, Richard Kidd and NBYO [...]

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The Regina Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with the the Music Department at the University of Regina, will present its first-ever Living Music Under Living Skies – a festival of new Canadian music and 20th century masterworks – March 21-24. The festival, co-founded by Pauline Minevich and Alain Perron, is directed by Dr. Minevich. The festival [...]

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Last week, the National Arts Centre Orchestra live-streamed its 2012-13 season launch – and by all accounts, it was a stellar affair. The season marks Pinchas Zukerman’s 14th as music director – and it’s action packed! Highlights include a Beethoven festival, a tour of northern Canada, two world premieres by Peter Paul Koprowski and Ana [...]

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The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir has announced a March 21 deadline for this year’s Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, designed for advanced students, pre-professional & professional musicians. The program runs from June 3-16 and takes place at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Classes are offered in voice, strings (violin, viola, cello and [...]

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The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Peter Feldman as its new General Manager, succeeding Bryan Croft. Peter was the founding executive director of CAPACOA, the Canadian arts presenting association. The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Kelly Rooney as its new Development Manager. A Thunder Bay native, Kelly is [...]

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Toronto and Vancouver area arts managers may be interested in learning more about an engaging workshop being presented by Orchestras Canada’s friends at the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres. Facilitators Ottie Lockey and Lucy White are offering levels 1 and 2 of their Continuous Professional Development Workshop. We’ll let them take over, as they describe [...]

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The Wallace Foundation, in partnership with Big Thought (a Dallas TX-based organization dedicated to quality arts education) have teamed up to create a resource-packed website that houses resources to engage stakeholders, define quality teaching and learning, assess the quality of programming and improve education for all children. Educators, artists, civic and community leaders, and policymakers [...]

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