Gilbert Conducts Dvorak
2023-01-22 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Dina Gilbert, guest conductorMarina Thibeault, viola
Vivian Fung | Pizzicato Pēteris Vasks | Viola ConcertoDvořák | Symphony No. 8
Rising star Québécoise conductor Dina Gilbert presents two contrasting visions of Eastern Europe. Dvořák’s optimistic Eighth Symphony pays loving tribute to the landscapes and folk tunes of Bohemia. Pēteris Vasks’ mournful Concerto for Viola, performed by Canadian violist, and Radio-Canada classical ‘Revelation’, Marina Thibeault, meditates and monologues on the times we are living in.

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In the Mood!
2023-02-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-02-12 14:30 - 16:30 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Jeffrey Pollock, guest conductorZoltan Kalman, clarinet
A swingin’ time with the NSO! Join NSO Principal clarinettist Zoltan Kalman and Maestro Jeffrey Pollock for a Big Band bash, featuring classic hits from greats like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, and more.

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Invisible Cities
2023-03-12 14:30 - 16:30 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Bradley Thachuk, conductorTorQ Percussion Quartet
Dinuk Wijeratne | Invisible Cities (World Premiere – Orchestra Version) Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 2
Everyone deserves a second chance! Rachmaninoff made the most of his, following the disastrous premiere of his first symphony with his beloved Symphony No. 2, which has been quoted in pop ballads and jazz tunes. TorQ Percussion Quartet bring the other-worldly imaginings of Dinuk Wijeratne’s Invisible Cities to life through bold and invigorating percussive colours.

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The Music of Phil Collins and Genesis
2023-03-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-03-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Bradley Thachuk, conductorJeremy Saje, lead vocals
From “In the Air Tonight” to “Against All Odds”, and “Turn It On Again” to “Invisible Touch”, Phil Collins has been responsible for some of the most cherished musical moments of the 70’s to the present day. His songs from the legendary band, Genesis and his solo work have been a consistent soundtrack to our lives and will be presented in a way they’ve never been heard before – reimagined for full orchestra with an all-star band.

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The Rite of Spring
2023-04-23 14:30 - 16:30 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Bradley Thachuk, conductorJarred Dunn, piano
Jerod Tate | Chokfi’ Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 24Stravinsky | Rite of Spring
The NSO concludes the 2022-23 season with Stravinsky’s (in)famous Rite of Spring, which cemented his position as one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century. Niagara Falls native, Jarred Dunn returns home as featured soloist on Mozart’s intimate and reflective Piano Concerto No. 24. Chickasaw composer Jerod Tate’s Chokfi’ portrays the titular trickster-rabbit from legend through tribal hymns and orchestral colours.

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Bubbly, Tea & Symphony
2023-07-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Willowmere Haven, 981 Line 6 Rd, Niagara-In-The-Lake, Ontario, L0S 1J0, Canada
Welcome to Bubbly, Tea and Symphony. If you’ve never experienced afternoon tea start now – it will become one of your new favourite things.
Tickets are $125 per person and include:– A glass of Bubbly to welcome your arrival,– Sweet and Savoury Towers of delectable sandwiches and cakes,– Complimentary Wines and Bubbly during the afternoon festivities,– A selection of Teas to enjoy,– For your added enjoyment a Silent Auction and Live Auction will be part of the event.
The picturesque surroundings of Willowmere Haven is the perfect location to enjoy a cup of tea while listening to a quartet from the Niagara Symphony Orchestra.
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In support of: NSO Educational & Youth Programs
All proceeds will be directed to support the NSO’s educational and youth programs. Since 1962, the NSO’s flagship Summer Music Camp has been about having fun with music! Families from the Niagara Region and beyond get to work with professional musicians and music educators, make friends, attend recitals, and perform in SMC concerts. All ages, abilities, and musical levels are welcome at SMC.
Our Bubbly is generously sponsored by:

Lailey winery is re-born with the addition of the Stonebridge vineyard series of wines. Returning to our roots, once again family owned and operated, with an uncompromising pursuit of quality. With the highest quality grapes, our minimal intervention approach to winemaking allows the wine to express the unique terroir of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Sheng Cai and Rachmaninoff
2023-09-17 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Sheng Cai, pianoDinuk Wijeratne | YatraRachmaninov | Piano Concerto No. 2Dvorak | Symphony No. 9
Commissioned to celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia, Dinuk Wijeratne’s fanfare, Yatra, is a fitting way to open the NSO’s Diamond Anniversary Season. Sheng Cai, a Canadian pianist with a growing international reputation, brings his dynamic force to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, popular with audiences and pianists alike; numerous films including David Lean’s romantic drama Brief Encounter utilize the music in its soundtrack. Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” has become a universal favourite! Known for its famous English Horn solo in the second movement, astronaut Neil Armstrong even took a tape recording along during Apollo 11’s mission in 1969.
Guest Artist SponsorPatrick Little of the St. Catharines Law Firm

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Walking Through The Fire
2023-09-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-10-01 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
SPECIAL EVENT
Sultans of String, Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk, Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Shannon Thunderbird, Don Ross, Leela Gilday, The North Sound, and a multimedia extravaganza featuring Northern Cree Powwow Group, Dr. Duke Redbird, Inuit singers, and more!
Award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists perform with JUNO Award nominees Sultans of String, in a musical multimedia event unlike any other! From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island/Canada.

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The Classics of Rodgers & Hammerstein
2023-10-22 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Jay Dref, tenorCharlotte Knight, sopranoNathan Keoughan, baritone
Partridge Hall will be alive with the sound of music as the NSO welcomes Charlotte Knight, Jay Dref, and Nathan Keoughan to sing the classics of Rodgers and Hammerstein. After highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up in July 1942 for their first collaboration: a musical adaptation of Green Grow the Lilacs. That musical would eventually become Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic Oklahoma!. A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by Carousel, South Pacific, The King And I, Cinderella, and The Sound of Music, all contributing songs to the Great American Songbook.

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Taiko + Bolero
2023-11-19 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Strauss | Don JuanMaki Ishii | Mono-PrismStrauss | Der Rosenkavalier: SuiteRavel | Bolero
In Ishii’s Mono-Prism, the NSO is joined by the mesmerizing and heart-pounding taiko drum ensemble Nagata Shachu, their function being to disturb heaven and earth with their powerful sound and dynamism, and to awaken the sprits. Don Juan is an orchestral favourite due to the numerous technical and musical demands on each instrument. When Richard Strauss needed some local color for his opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose), he turned to the waltz it as shorthand for the elegance and grace of a bygone era. Ravel’s Bolero, known for its orchestral crescendo and featured soloists throughout the entire orchestra, could be his most famous composition, made even more famous by the ice dancing pair Torvill and Dean at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics.
NAGATA SHACHU is theDR. and MRS. W.N. TYTANECK Guest Artist

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Brad’s Home for the Holidays
2023-12-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-12-17 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Kaylee Harwood, sopranoSayer Roberts, tenorLaura Secord S.S. Choir
Celebrate 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!

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Earthbeat + Brahms
2024-01-28 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Snow Bai, erhuNiagara Youth OrchestraVincent Ho | EarthbeatAlison Yun-Fei | Jiang River MemoryKevin Lau | Between the Earth and ForeverBrahms | Symphony No. 4
Erhuist 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.

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Nibbles And Notes - A Pre-Concert Cocktail Hour
2024-02-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
SAT 10 FEB AT 6:00PM AND SUN 11 FEB AT 1:00 PMJOY WILLIAMS LOBBY
Please join us for a pre-concert cocktail hour in the Upper Lobby of the PAC before Soulful on Saturday, Feb 10 and Sunday, Feb. 11.
Let 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.
Tickets $50 per person plus fees and taxes
Add a $25 donation in honour of the NSO’s 75th Diamond Anniversary and receive a tax receipt for $25

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Soulful
2024-02-10 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-02-11 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
A Jeans ‘n Classics celebration in honour of Black History MonthGavin Hope, vocalist
Come 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!

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Postcards from a Blue Planet
2024-02-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-02-19 12:30 - 13:30 | FOPAC Recital Hall, 250 St. Paul St., St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Madison Deppe, flutes
Cathi MacDonnell, bassoon
Zoltan Kalman, clarinet & alto saxophone
Dave Braun, narrator
Kenneth Cayugan, artwork
Commissioned by the NSO in 2018, Kevin Lau’s Postcards From A Blue Planet highlights unique habitats with a variety of musical styles and genres. This multi-sensory, audio and visual performance introduces you to wind instruments: flute, alto flute, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon.
Part of FirstOntario PAC Family Day events.
Generously sponsored by Paul Collins.
All seats: $20

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Next Gen. Beethoven
2024-03-03 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Chelsea Ahn, pianoYounggun Kim, pianoBeethoven | Coriolan Overture Piano Concerto No. 4Egmont Overture Piano Concerto No. 5
Who 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. Its 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 theDR. and MRS. W.N. TYTANECK Guest Artist

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Classic Rock Radio
2024-04-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
A Gravel Museum Production
Rock 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!

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Mahler's Symphony No. 2
2024-05-05 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Jocelyn Fralick, sopranoBeste Kalender, mezzoBuffalo Philharmonic Chorus

Niagara 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.

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Parker Plays Grieg
2024-09-15 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

Kevin Lau
Dark Angels

Grieg
Piano Concerto

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5

The Medusa myth profoundly influenced the musical shape that Dark Angels would assume. Its pages bear the scars of Medusa’s transformation, and the bitter metaphors associated with her suffering.
The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and is among the most popular of the genre. Grieg, being only 24 years old at the time of the composition, had taken inspiration from Robert Schumann’s only concerto, also being in A minor.
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony demonstrates how convincingly he could create a large–scale symphonic work of complete technical assurance and structural equilibrium, yet wholly his own in expression.

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All Gershwin
2024-10-20 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Jay Dref, tenorDaniel Clarke Bouchard, piano

Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue

An American in Paris

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George Gershwin wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, but important as well are his orchestral and piano compositions in which he blended the techniques and forms of classical music with the stylistic nuances and techniques of popular music and jazz.
Rhapsody in Blue incorporates trademarks of the jazz idiom into a symphonic context. The work is perhaps the most-performed and most-recorded orchestral composition of the 20th Century. An American in Paris represents Gershwin’s employment of both jazz and classical forms, the harmonic structure rooted in blues traditions.
Jay Dref (left) returns to the NSO following his appearance last season in The Classic of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Daniel Clarke Bouchard (right) began playing the piano at the age of five. He has performed in many great venues all across Canada.
DANIEL CLARKE BOUCHARD is theDR. and MRS. W.N. TYTANECK Guest Artist

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Pre-Concert Wine & Jazz
2024-11-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Joy Williams Upper Lobby
Join the Niagara Symphony Orchestra for a pre-concert Wine and Jazz before the Queen Symphony event on Saturday, November 23.

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The Queen Symphony
2024-11-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-24 14:30 - 17:00 | Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3M2, Canada
Chorus Niagara, guest artist

Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Kashif
The Queen Symphony

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story is an orchestral suite in nine movements adapted from parts of Bernstein’s landmark musical, West Side Story.
The Queen Symphony pays tribute to the timeless songs of the iconic rock band Queen, including Who Wants to Live Forever and Bohemian Rhapsody. The music is distinctly symphonic, building on musical fragments and adding brand new material.
As Niagara’s premier auditioned symphonic choir, Chorus Niagara draws its membership from throughout the Niagara peninsula and from as far away as Hamilton and Buffalo NY.

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