Orchestras Canada

This year, in an effort to do a better job of keeping everyone informed about what’s what (and what’s where), we’re using a web app for the National Meeting. While we’re adding to it every day, by the time the meetings start, the app will contain pretty much everything that meeting attendees will need to [...]

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June 5, 12, and 19 at 1 p.m. Eastern each day, Orchestras Canada is presenting three 1-hour webinars designed specifically to help the staff and board members of smaller-budget orchestras sharpen their fundraising skills, from a run-down on best practices, to building fundraising infrastructure, to developing an achievable fundraising plan. With the help of the [...]

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Orchestras Canada is calling out to all members to help us update our photo gallery, for use in Orchestra News, our Annual Report, social media, and other publications. If you have recent pictures of your orchestra and are willing to share, please send them to Sarah Bobak at info@oc.ca.

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From May 22-25, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (led by guest festival director Ivars Taurins) will present its annual Bach@Knox Festival – three concerts and a film screening celebrating the music and life of J.S. Bach. Concert 1 features the music of Bach and his many musical family members: sons, a cousin, and a nephew, and [...]

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After the success of last year’s open air concert by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Toronto’s Luminato Festival, the TSO will take part in three Luminato events this year. They include: The annual Tailgate Party and Late Night Concert, on June 15, with ultra-hip food-truck fare and drinks in the Roy Thomson Hall parking lot, [...]

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Late last week, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra announced an extraordinary joint partnership with the Edmonton Catholic School District, the Rotary Clubs of Edmonton Riverview and Sherwood Park, and the Inner City Children’s Program (ICCP). The groups are collaborating to launch YONA-Sistema (Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta), a three-year pilot outreach program which will start in [...]

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This June, Tafelmusik will give four free concerts in different Toronto venues as part of its Baroque Summer Festival, running June 4, 9, and 13, with the grand finale on June 16. The festival runs alongside the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, a pre-professional and professional training program for musicians from 13 countries around the world [...]

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Les Violons du Roy, led by music director Bernard Labadie, will close out their 2013-14 seasons in both Québec and Montréal with the Québec premier of one of Handel’s most dramatic oratorios, Theodora. The work features an all-star cast, that includes Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Iestyn Davies, Allan Clayton, and Andrew Foster-Williams, along with La [...]

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Montréal’s Orchestre Métropolitain has announced its summer season, twenty concerts that comprise chamber music, major festival appearances, and delightful outdoor concerts in Montréal-area parks. Programs include: Chamber music brunches in Old Montreal, at Place Jacques-Cartier, almost every weekend from mid-June to July 21; A pair of performances of music from Russia and Bohemia, led by [...]

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On May 14, 32 NYOC musicians and three faculty members traveled to Bangalore (Bengaluru), to work alongside 35 young musicians recruited by the Bangalore School of Music) to take part in the first-ever Canada-India Youth Orchestra. Participants will take part in master classes, one-on-one lessons with leading instructors, and orchestral rehearsals, culminating in a performance [...]

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