Music Director Andrei Feher opens the 22/23 Season with Brahms’ final symphony, rich in allusions to Beethoven and full of impassioned intensity. The KWS commission of Upwell is in collaboration with Toronto-based composer Jordan Pal, performed by Shawn Mativetsky.
Sat Oct 1 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Oct 2 / 2:30 pm
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Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu joins Andrei Feher for Grieg’s epic Piano Concerto in A minor. Both large-scale and tender, the piano concerto is contrasted perfectly by Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3, a compact crystallization of ideas from chaos in three movements. KWS commission Megyaakwaang by Barbara Assiginaak opens this spirited program.
Sat Oct 29 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Oct 30 / 2:30 pm
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We’ve packed “1001 Nights” all into one evening with Rimsky-Korsakov’s imaginative orchestral showpiece Scheherazade. Joining the KWS is German pianist Joseph Moog for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a stunning work showcasing brilliant virtuosity.
Sat Nov 26 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Nov 27 / 2:30 pm
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Portuguese conductor Nuno Coelho leads the KWS in a program that looks to the past for inspired innovation. Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme transforms baroque gestures in a romantic way, elegantly expressed by Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman.
Sat Jan 21 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Jan 22 / 2:30 pm
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Verdi's tragic Parisian romance about a woman caught between two worlds and a fatal love. Hear the soaring arias of Violetta and Alfredo in one of Verdi's most timeless compositions. A cast of distinguished Canadian singers alongside emerging talent from Wilfred Laurier University and the Laurier Singers perform La Traviata.
Sat Feb 11 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Feb 12 / 2:30 pm
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KWS Concertmaster Bénédicte Lauzière shines in one of the best-loved violin concertos in the repertoire by Tchaikovsky. Kalinnikov is a lesser-known Russian composer who died at an early age but deserves a place among the Russian greats.
Sat Mar 25 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Mar 26 / 2:30 pm
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The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Music Director, Alexander Shelley, brings sparkling French elegance from two great composers in the Austro-German tradition, spliced with a brand new showpiece for flute and harp soloists by Estonian-Canadian Riho Maimets.
Sat Apr 22 / 8:00 pm
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Sun Apr 23 / 2:30 pm
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From first downbeat of the Signature Series finale, the KWS launch into a fast and furious showcase of epic proportions! Ukrainian-Canadian pianist Serhiy Salov bursts with passion in Prokofiev’s ultra-virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2. Shostakovich’s colossal Symphony No. 10, widely viewed as a portrayal of the composer’s life in Stalinist Russia, ha
Sat May 13 / 8:00 pm
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Sun May 14 / 2:30 pm
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