The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra provides a slate of six concert events for his or her 2024/25 season. CBSO will probably be led by Martin MacDonald, who returns for a 3rd season as Music Director and Conductor.
Every live performance encompasses a crowd-pleasing mixture of well-known repertoire together with works by modern Canadian composers, and a lineup of visitor artists that showcase the town’s depth of classical music expertise.
Right here’s a have a look at the season briefly.
Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra 2024/25 Season At A Look
There’s a pre-concert chat to speak about repertoire and artist earlier than every efficiency. Be aware that an asterisk * subsequent to a reputation signifies a Canadian composer.
Ode to Pleasure | Saturday October 5, 2024
CBSO marks the 2 hundredth anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with a program devoted to the Ode to Pleasure.
Visitor artists embody: soprano Rachel Krehm, mezzo-soprano Danielle MacMillan, tenor Daevyd Pepper, and bass-baritone Alex Halliday as soloists, together with performances by the Pax Christi Chorale and Voices Chamber Choir, carried out by Elaine Choi and Ron Cheung, respectively.
Program
- Joel Toews* Fanfare and March (2024) World premiere
- Matthew Emery* Hymn of Reward (2015)
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Choral
Affairs Of The Coronary heart | Saturday November 16, 2024
Violinist Tanya Charles Iveniuk joins conductor Martin MacDonald and the CBSO for a program of music that highlights feelings, culminating in Tchaikovsky’s haunting Symphony No. 6.
With an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould Faculty, and B.Mus. in Efficiency from the College of Toronto, award-winning visitor violinist Tanya Charles Iveniuk has carried out throughout North America and the Caribbean. She can also be a sessional teacher on the College of Toronto.
Program
- Jocelyn Morlock:* My Title is Amanda Todd (2015)
- Marjan Mozetich:* Affairs of the Coronary heart (1997)
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor Pathetique
Classically Christmas | December, 14, 2024
The winner of the North York Music Pageant Concerto Competitors would be the soloist for this celebration of the Christmas holidays.
The repertoire attracts on favourites that pay musical tribute to the season, together with Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije Suite. It was the composer’s first enterprise into composing music for movie, a Russian literary adaptation of a satirical story.
Program
- Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Picks from The Snow Maiden
- Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije: Suite
- Tchaikovsky: Picks from Nutcracker
Ryan Huang, age 12, performs Liszt’s Piano Live performance No. 1 with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra in October 2022:
Spanish Nights | February 8, 2025
Conductor Martin MacDonald and the CBSO warmth up a mid-winter’s night with the rhythms and music of Spain, and impressed by Spain.
Program
- Chabrier: Espana
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
- de Falla: Picks from The Three-Cornered Hat
- Elizabeth Raum:* “Flamenco Dance” from Carmen, The Ardour (2010)
- Bizet: Picks from Carmen
- Marquez: Danzon No. 2
Appalachian Spring | Saturday April 19, 2025
This particular matinee live performance celebrates the arrival of spring. Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring is on the coronary heart of a program that’s about storytelling and evoking a way of place with music.
Program
- Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
- Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Suite
- Alexina Louie*: Music for a Celebration (1990)
- Mascagni: “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria Rusticana
- Copland: Appalachian Spring (1945)
Footage At An Exhibition | Saturday Might 24, 2025
Martin MacDonald leads the orchestra in a vibrant season finale of memorable works. French horn participant Samir Abd-Elmessih, Principal Horn of the CSBO in addition to Orchestra Toronto, and a former member of the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Canada, is the soloist for Gliere’s Horn Concerto.
Program
- Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino
- Ian Cusson:* Tableau Vivant (2018)
- Gliere: Horn Concerto
- Mussorgsky-Ravel: Footage at an Exhibition
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