Bellows & Brass Celebrate the glorious 500-year tradition of voice, organ and brass, with a quintet from the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. A delightful variety of works spanning the centuries, from Giovanni Gabrieli to Paul Halley, will make your spirit soar. Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Brass Quintet Grand Philharmonic Choir Mark Vuorinen, conductor Our Venues
Immortal Bach Meet J.S. Bach and his musical descendants and heirs in this beguiling presentation of motets by a family of Bachs and the works of other composers, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt, who were deeply influenced by this greatest of composers. Works by J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, J.L. Bach Felix Mendelssohn and Knut Nystedt....
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis “From the heart, may it again go to the heart,” Beethoven said about this work. Intimately personal in some places, grand in its sprawling narrative at other times, this is Beethoven at the height of his creative genius. Leslie Fagan, soprano Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano Owen McCausland, tenor Geoffrey Sirett, baritone Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony...
Big Choruses: From Brahms to Broadway The best-loved choruses from opera, oratorio and musical theatre await you! Selections from Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, Bernstein's Candide, and much more. Storyteller extraordinaire Tom Allen will be our guide during the evening. A wonderful night for the family! Big Choruses: From Brahms to Broadway Grand Philharmonic Choir Saturday...
Enchanting music for early winter and Christmas, including Britten's lovely Ceremony of Carols, the transcendent sonorities of Pärt's Bogoroditse Djevo, and excerpts from Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen. You will hear wineglasses used as instruments in Ēriks Ešenvalds' ethereal Stars, experience snowscape as sound in R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms, and much more. Winter Hymn Grand Philharmonic Chamber...
Messiah It's impossible to think of Christmas without Messiah, and this year we have an extra gift for you! Along with the timeless beauty of Handel's music, we will project breathtaking, hand-crafted images from the Saint John Bible, through a partnership with St. Jerome's University, Conrad Grebel University College, and University of Waterloo Critical Media...
"My youngest child, old-fashioned and sweet," Bernstein wrote of his Chichester Psalms, which are often described as a magical combination of Biblical Hebrew verse and Christian choral tradition. At this concert, we will also perform the winning work from the GPC composition competition, which launches this season. Gloria Grand Philharmonic Choir Natasha Campbell, soprano Daniel...
Bach: St. John Passion We return to our beloved tradition of a Bach masterwork on Good Friday. St. John Passion is dramatic, tragic and yet indescribably beautiful. The eloquent Canadian tenor, Lawrence Wiliford, takes the role of the Evangelist, in which he has been described as portraying a "brilliant mix of tenderness and dramatic ferocity"...
"Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach me freedom as the eagle which soars in the sky." These words, from a prayer of the indigenous Ute Nation prayer, are the text of Rupert Lang's Earth Teach Me. It's just one of several sublime compositions that we offer for an evocative...
Buy Tickets Mozart died while writing his own Requiem. Perhaps that is why we still find this music - by turn terrifying, heartbreaking and serene, so compelling. Also at this concert, you'll experience powerful photographs Edward Burtynsky on the big screen while hearing soaring works by Tulev and Gjeilo. Try Us Out! For this concert only, all...
