Celebrate Christkindlmarkt Join us for the procession form Victoria Park to Kitchener City Hall complete with live animals! There will be carol singing along with “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel's Messiah.
Christmas Carols with our Youth and Children’s choirs Join us at Kitchener City Hall for the singing of Christmas Carols at the Christkindl Christmas Market
Dove: There Was A Child and other seasonal works From our family to yours, this will be a homecoming to remember! Our children’s and youth choirs join our adult singers for a beautiful “family of choirs” concert. Jonathan Dove’s sublime work, which celebrates young life with joy and intensity, will be performed here for the...
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...
