concerts
We welcome our audience back to the concert hall with an exciting 2023-2024 Diamond Anniversary Season! Learn all about our concerts and plan your NSO experience today.
Brad’s Home for the Holidays
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaCelebrate the holidays with the familiar sounds of the most enchanting season! The NSO’s festive concert tradition returns with holly and mistletoe, sweet sugar plums, vocalists Kaylee Harwood and Sayer Roberts, and the Laura Secord Secondary School Choir. New this year: ‘The Snowman” is coming to town. Created by Raymond Briggs, ‘The Snowman” is one of the world’s most popular and iconic picture books. Nominated for an Oscar and winner of a BAFTA TV award, the animated version of “The Snowman” includes the iconic song “Walking in the Air,” written by composer Howard Blake. Enjoy “The Snowman” and its heartwarming soundtrack played live by the NSO as part of the NSO's holiday concert. Regardless of where you’re from, come home for the holidays with the NSO!
Brad’s Home for the Holidays
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaCelebrate the holidays with the familiar sounds of the most enchanting season! The NSO’s festive concert tradition returns with holly and mistletoe, sweet sugar plums, vocalists Kaylee Harwood and Sayer Roberts, and the Laura Secord Secondary School Choir. New this year: ‘The Snowman” is coming to town. Created by Raymond Briggs, ‘The Snowman” is one of the world’s most popular and iconic picture books. Nominated for an Oscar and winner of a BAFTA TV award, the animated version of “The Snowman” includes the iconic song “Walking in the Air,” written by composer Howard Blake. Enjoy “The Snowman” and its heartwarming soundtrack played live by the NSO as part of the NSO's holiday concert. Regardless of where you’re from, come home for the holidays with the NSO!
Earthbeat + Brahms
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaErhuist Snow Bai brings her expressive and dynamic performance to the NSO stage with an instrument that is rarely seen. Ho’s Earthbeat is inspired by the traditions of Canada’s First Nations community, bringing one closer to the Earth’s “heartbeat.” Jiang’s River Memory is a work inspired by the Niagara Falls, contemplating on the transformation of human identity as part of the immigration and diaspora experience. Beloved composer Lau’s Between the Earth and Forever, is a poetic evocation of the space between our home and the universe, the familiar and the unknown, the earthly and the transcendent, the preciousness of nature and the abyss of environmental disaster. Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 is the last of his symphonies and possibly his finest and most moving.
Nibbles And Notes – A Pre-Concert Cocktail Hour
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaLet the NSO put you in the mood for Valentine's Day. Enjoy a glass of wine, hors d'oeuvres, and the musical stylings of jazz pianist, Doug Mundy prior to the Soulful concert. A long time Niagara resident, Mundy is one of the most in demand musicians in the Niagara Region. He has recently completed a tour of New Zealand working with a collection of the country's finest jazz musicians.
Soulful
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaCome celebrate 50 years of R&B, Motown, Funk, Disco, and Pop by some of the finest African American recording artists and performers like Smokey Robinson, Outkast, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Isaac Hayes, and Seal. Featuring three-time Juno Award nominee and long-time member of the iconic Canadian a cappella group, The Nylons, Gavin Hope is a natural born performer. With his lightning speed comedic timing, skills on the dance floor, and truly exceptional, velvety, emotional voice, Hope is always a fan favourite!
Nibbles And Notes – A Pre-Concert Cocktail Hour
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaLet the NSO put you in the mood for Valentine's Day. Enjoy a glass of wine, hors d'oeuvres, and the musical stylings of jazz pianist, Doug Mundy prior to the Soulful concert. A long time Niagara resident, Mundy is one of the most in demand musicians in the Niagara Region. He has recently completed a tour of New Zealand working with a collection of the country's finest jazz musicians.
Soulful
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaCome celebrate 50 years of R&B, Motown, Funk, Disco, and Pop by some of the finest African American recording artists and performers like Smokey Robinson, Outkast, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Isaac Hayes, and Seal. Featuring three-time Juno Award nominee and long-time member of the iconic Canadian a cappella group, The Nylons, Gavin Hope is a natural born performer. With his lightning speed comedic timing, skills on the dance floor, and truly exceptional, velvety, emotional voice, Hope is always a fan favourite!
Next Gen. Beethoven
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaWho doesn’t love Beethoven? Two young talents bring twice the energy to two piano concertos! Piano Concerto No. 4 is a favorite of concert audiences and considered by many to be one of the pinnacles of the piano concerto repertoire. Piano Concerto No. 5 is known as the Emperor Concerto although it has no association with any emperor. It’s military aspects and symbolism characterize its heroic style. The Coriolan Overture represents Coriolanus’ resolve and war-like tendencies as he is about to invade Rome. The Egmont Overture, one of the last works of Beethoven’s “middle period,” is powerful and expressive and has become as famous a composition as the Coriolan Overture.
CHELSEA AHN is the
DR. and MRS. W.N. TYTANECK Guest Artist
Classic Rock Radio
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaRock out to the greatest classic rock songs of all time! The music of Queen, The Who, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, and many more performed by an all-star band, backed by the full power of NSO!
Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
Partridge Hall 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaNiagara native Jocelyn Fralick, Turkish-Canadian Beste Kalender, the BPC, and the LSSSC join the NSO for a rousing finale to the NSO’s Diamond Anniversary Season. Voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 is known as the Resurrection Symphony. One of his most popular and successful works, it was also his first major composition that established his lifelong view of the beauty of the afterlife, and resurrection. In this large work, Mahler further developed the creative “sound of the distance,” his goal to compose a “world of its own,” aspects of which were already seen in Mahler’s First Symphony.