Boogie down to Bourbon Street with virtuoso Canadian pianist Michael Kaeshammer and your KWS. Featuring New Orleans standards like The Saints Go Marching In, St. James Infirmary, and The Basin Street Blues, this program brings a fresh take to music of the Big Easy.
Oct 15 - Oct 17
Andrei Feher’s fourth season as Music Director opens with impassioned gusto of timeless composers. Joined by Canadian Violinist Kerson Leong, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 is both chilling and tender, filled with furiously virtuosic violin passages.
Oct 29 - Oct 31
Dreamy. Celestial. Sublime! French-Canadian mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne explores all corners of these gossamer soundscapes in Berlioz’s song cycle Les nuits d’eté. Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares liturgiques, sourced from an early opera by the composer, depicts scenes of Christian funeral processions and divine awakenings.
Nov 19 - Nov 21
Get ready to let your hair down and kick off your shoes! After amazing audiences with his Piano Men concert, Jim Witter returns by popular demand with a brand new show featuring the music of Simon and Garfunkel.
Dec 3 - Dec 5
KWS audience favourite Evan Mitchell returns to lead Waterloo Region’s cherished holiday tradition – a spectacle of Christmas favourites, singers, dancers, and special guests.
Dec 17 - Dec 19
A night of elegance and light-heartedness awaits in this concert of spirited works that are full of vitality. Though called Tragic, Schubert’s sublime Symphony No. 4 contains as much bubbly, youthful vigor as tragedy.
Jan 7 - Jan 9
Dates for the 2021/22 concerts will be announced when more information is available.
