Orchestras Canada

This weekend, May 4 and 5, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra gives its hometown audiences an opportunity to hear the program that the orchestra (led by music director Bill Eddins, and featuring soloists Jens Lindemann, trumpet; Angela Cheng, piano; Juliette Kang, violin; and Denise Djokic, cello) will perform as part of this year’s Spring for Music [...]

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Last Saturday night, April 28, Owen Sound’s Georgian Bay Symphony celebrated its 40th anniversary with a concert that included the world premiere of a new work, a return engagement by a locally-raised pianist now studying at Indiana University, and a larger-than-usual orchestra bolstered by alumni returning for the event. The program was conducted by long-time [...]

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This Saturday (May 5), the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the long-time contributions of music director John Barnum, with a season-closing concert at the Living Arts Centre. The program features three movements from Holst’s The Planets, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Ruth Fazal’s Song from the River, and the world premiere of Concertante for [...]

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The City of Ottawa has decreed May 7-13 as National Arts Centre Orchestra week. This sixth annual celebration of all things NACO will highlight the role of the NAC Orchestra and its musicians in performance at the NAC and in the community. Celebratory events include an array of public events (ranging from the finals of [...]

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On Saturday, May 12, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra gives the long-awaited public premiere of a new work for narrator and orchestra, based on a beloved Canadian story. It’s Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, with music by Abigail Richardson, and the work (which debuted for school audiences in April) will get its public debut on the [...]

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Last week, the National Arts Centre Orchestra introduced another innovative offering on its website: a unique new feature showcasing ten streamed live recordings of the orchestra and its internationally acclaimed guest artists, with two more concerts to be added before the end of the 2011-12 season (and another 7 to 10 concerts per year to [...]

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The Windsor Symphony Orchestra will add nine performances to its concert schedule for the 2012-2013 Season, citing the need to respond to demand caused by its move to the historic Capitol Theatre and its search for a new Music Director. “The two factors that typically stimulate ticket sales for symphony orchestras are a new concert [...]

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As its 2011-12 season winds down, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is reporting record sales in its first year in the Maison symphonique. “All series taken together, concerts have had a 95 percent occupancy rate this year, an outstanding season for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal,” OSM chief executive officer Madeleine Careau happily reported. “We [...]

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Orchestra News was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dr. Tom Condon, an exceptional academic and long-time cultural volunteer, whose efforts were key in restoring Saint John’s beautiful Imperial Theatre, and who led the board of Symphony New Brunswick for many years, as well. We send our condolences to his family and friends. [...]

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The Canada Revenue Agency has released updated, written guidelines for fundraising by registered charities – something of equal interest to fundraisers, chief financial officers and board treasurers. Among other things, the new guidance includes a substantially simplified suggested method of allocation, gives less prominence to the ratio of fundraising expenses to overall revenue, discusses the [...]

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