July 4-14, 2012 8pm (Sunday matinee 2pm) The musical Nine. Kristin M. Finlay, director, Sally Hunt, musical director, Adam Mazerolle-Kuss, choreographer. Walterdale Playhouse, $14, $18. Tix on the Square or cash at the door (Thursday July 5 is 2 for 1, cash only)
Sunday July 8, 2012 4pm Classic Bronze 2012 - Canada's only advanced handbell festival closing concert (bells and choir). Dr. John Hooper, director. Concordia University College Robert Tegler Student Centre. $12, $10 and $25 per family, Tix on the Square or at the door. http://www.classicbronze.org/
July 8 – 15, 2012 Choralies Internationales 2012 – francophone festival of choral music. Various times and locations, concerts listed individually below. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.
Sunday July 8, 2012 2pm Alberta College Conservatory of Music Connections Concert Series. Emerging student musicians and faculty performances. Muttart Hall 10050 MacDonald Dr. $20, $10 Tix on the Square.
Sunday July 8, 2012 8:30pm Concert d'overture - Toi, moi, tout un monde! Choralies Internationales 2012 –Grand Opening concert featuring two professional choirs from Alberta and Quebec. Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.
Friday July 13, 2012 8:30pm Concert Gala - Pleins feux en chanson! Choralies Internationales 2012 – Gala Concert featuring the massed choir from the festival. Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.
Sunday July 15, 2012 3pm Choralies Internationales 2012 – Closing Concert. Concert de clôture - Célébrons le Grand choeur des Choralies! Winspear Centre. Contact http://www.choraliesedmonton2012.ca/ for more information.
Friday August 31, 2012 7pm Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky. Robert Bernhart, conductor, Sara Davis Buechner, piano. Overture from The Barber of Seville, Rossini, Symphony No. 40, Mozart, Piano Concerto No.1, Tchaikovsky. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Reserved - $40, $20, Grass - $25, kids FREE.
Saturday September 1, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky Orchestral Showcase. Robert Bernhart, conductor, Lucas Waldin, conductor, Virginie Gagné, violin, Robin Doyon, trumpet, Julianne Scott, clarinet, Kathleen do Caen, cello. Music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Haydn and a world premiere by a young Edmonton composer. Stick around after the concert for the family BBQ to support ESO Education Programs. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Reserved - $40, $20, Grass - $25, kids FREE.
Sunday September 2, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky – Family Matinee – We Love Music!. Lucas Waldin, conductor, with ESO soloists. Ideal for kids 6 and up. Stick around after the concert for the family BBQ to support ESO Education Programs. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Reserved - $40, $20, Grass - $25, kids FREE.
Sunday September 2, 2012 7pm Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky – Broadway Showstoppers. Robert Bernhardt, conductor, Louise Pitre, vocalist. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Reserved - $40, $20, Grass - $25, kids FREE.
Monday September 3, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Under the Sky – Great Symphonic Dances. Robert Bernhardt and Lucas Waldin, conductors, Ryan VanDenBoom, tap dancer, 20th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Boléro, Ravel, Tap Dance Concerto, Gould, Congo del Fuego Nuevo, Marquez, 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Reserved - $40, $20, Grass - $25, kids FREE.
September 21, 22, 2012 7:30pm Alberta Ballet – Great Masterpieces of the 20th Century. Jubillee Auditorium.
Sunday September 23, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Lucas Waldin, conductor, Megan Evans, ESO Assistant Principal Horn, Dongkyun An, cello. World premiere of an ESO commission by Rival, Cello Concerto, Elgar, Villanelle for Horn, Dukas, Symphony No.4, Schumann. Sunday Prelude – 1:15pm Third Level Lobby, and stick around to meet the artists in the main lobby after the concert. Winspear Centre.
Wednesday September 26, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, piano and conductor, Shannon Mercer, soprano, Eric Buchmann, ESO Interim Concertmaster, violin. Music by Mozart – Piano Concerto No.24, Ch’io mi scordi di te, L’amero saro Costante, Oh, temerario Arbace, Symphony No.35 “Haffner”. Winspear Centre.
Saturday September 29, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, piano and conductor, Nora Bumanis, ESO principal harp, Robin Doyon, ESO principal trumpet, Lidia Khaner, ESO principal oboe. Piano Concerto No.24, Mozart, Harp Concerto, Ginastera, Concert Piece for Oboe, Rietz, Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen, Waxman. Symphony Prelude, Upper Circle lobby at 7:15pm. Winspear Centre.
Sunday September 30, 2012 2:30pm FREE Pro Coro Canada - Once Upon a Time. Michael Zaugg, conductor, Matthias Maute, recorder. Canadian Premiere, The Nightingale (Oratorio), Ugis Praulins, and Rain and Rusk and Rosebush, Holten. Part of Alberta's Culture Days. Winspear Centre.
Friday October 12, 2012 7:30pm and Saturday October 13 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Gregory Vajda, conductor, Katherine Chi, piano. Piano Concerto No.2, Chopin, Concert Românesc, Ligeti, Selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mendelssohn. Friday October 12 - Afterthoughts (post-concert conversation) hosted by D.T. Baker. Saturday October 13 – Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
October 19, 21, 25 and 25, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Opera – Aida (Verdi). Jubillee Auditorium.
Monday October 29, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.William Eddins, conductor, Measha Brueggergosman, soprano. Shéhérazade, Ravel. Winspear Centre.
November 2,3, 2012 7:30 Alberta Ballet – Othello. Jubillee Auditorium.
Sunday November 4, 2012 2:30pm Pro Coro Canada - Laudate-Jubilate-Cantate! Music by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Bruckner. All Saints' Anglican Cathedral. $30, $25.
Friday November 9, 2012 9:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. “Late Night” with William Eddins, conductor, Cameron Carpenter, organ. Performance, discussion and QandA. Drinks and live entertainment after the concert. Winspear Centre.
Saturday November 10, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Cameron Carpenter, organ. Symphony No.7 “Unfinished”, Schubert, Toccata Festiva, Barber, D’un soir triste and D’un matin de printemps, Boulanger, Organ Symphony No.1, Dupré. Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
November 15-18, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Opera – Shelter (by Juliet Kiri Palmer). Co-produced with Tapestry New Opera and co-presented by the UofA’s Festival of Ideas. Jubillee Auditorium.
Saturday November 17, 2012 2pm ESO Symphony for Kids – Platypus Theatre’s Rhythm in Your Rubbish. Martin MacDonald, conductor. Play and Learn Pre-concert activities 1-1:45pm for the whole family. Winspear Centre.
Friday November 23, 2012 7:30pm and Saturday November 24 at 8pm. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Danail Rachev, conductor, Benjamin Beilman, violin. Steps to Ecstasy, Mozetich, Violin Concerto No.3, Mozart, Symphony No.1, Brahms. Winspear Centre. November 23 – Afterthoughts, casual post-concert conversation with D.T. Baker. November 24 – Symphony Prelude 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby.
Saturday November 24, 2012 Time TBA Early Music Alberta. Masterclasses by Terry Hron, recorder and Katelyn Clark, harpsichord. Interested participants can contact Early Music Alberta. Location TBA.
Sunday November 25, 2012 Time TBA Early Music Alberta. Terry Hron, recorder and Katelyn Clark, harpsichord and organetto. Location TBA.
Wednesday November 28, 2012 Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Lucas Waldin, conductor, Eleanor Kendra James, viola (winner of the 2012 Shean Competition). Concerto for Strings, Vivaldi, Music from Ariodante, Handel, Symphony No.2, Schubert. Winspear Centre.
Sunday December 2, 2012 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Lucas Waldin, conductor, Tatiana Warszynski, ESO violinist, Mikolaj Warszynski, piano. Symphony No. 2, Schubert, Music from Ariodante, Handel. Movements from Piano Concerto No.27, Mozart, Concerto for Violin and Piano, Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto No.2, Wieniawski. Winspear Centre.
Friday December 7 and Saturday December 8, 2012 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Handel’s Messiah. Soloists TBA. Winspear Centre.
Friday December 7, 2012 Early Music Alberta - Definitely Not the Messiah. Music of Handel by Bill Damur, baroque flute, Josephine van Lier, cello and viola da gamba, and John Brough, harpsichord. Location TBA.
December 14-16, 2012 7:30pm Alberta Ballet – The Nutcracker. Jubillee Auditorium.
Sunday December 16, 2012 2:30pm Pro Coro Canada - A Pro Coro Family Christmas. Winspear Centre (contact Winspear Centre for tickets and prices).
Thursday December 20, 2012 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – A Christmas Feast. Steven Reineke, conductor. Carols and traditional songs with the orchestra. Winspear Centre.
Sunday December 30, 2012 2:30pm Salute to Vienna – Neujahrskonzert. The Strauss Symphony of Canada, Christian Schulz, conductor (Vienna), Brian Cheney, tenor (USA), Kiev-Aniko Ballet (Ukraine). Favourite Strauss waltzes, polkas and famous operetta pieces. Winspear Centre.
January 12, 13, 16, 18 and 19, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Opera – Svadba – Wedding (by Ana Sokolovic). Produced by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.
Saturday January 12, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Pierre Simard, conductor, William Street, saxophone. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Danse, and Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone, Debussy, Concerto da camera for Saxophone, Ibert, Oiseaux exotiques – Suite, Freedman, Cantus Articus – Concerto for Birds, Rautavaara. Symphony Prelude – 7:15pm in the Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Tuesday January 22, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor and piano, Karen Gomyo, violin. Violin Concerto No.1, Shostakovich. Winspear Centre.
Saturday January 26, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Yannick-Muriel Noah, soprano. Symphony No.1, Beethoven, operatic arias by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bellini and Catalini. Symphony Prelude – 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
February 1, 3, 5 and 7, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Opera – Les Contes d’Hoffman (Offenbach). Jubilee Auditorium.
Friday February 22, 2013 7:30pm and Saturday February 23 8pm. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Nikki Chooi, violin, Timothy Chooi, violin. Concerto for Two Violins, JS Bach, Rondo Capriccioso, Saint-Saëns, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Britten, Symphony No.2 “Water”, Rival. February 22 – Afterthoughts, casual post-concert conversation with D.T. Baker. February 23 – Sunday Prelude, 1:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Sunday February 24, 2013 2:30pm Pro Coro Canada - Canadian Connections - Pro Coro and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Michael Zaugg and Jon Washburn, conductors. All Saints' Anglican Cathedral. $30, $25.
Sunday February 27, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, George Li, piano. Hebrides Overture and Piano Concerto No.1, Mendelssohn, Symphony No.31 “Horn Signal”, Haydn. Winspear Centre.
Sunday March 3, 2013 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, D.T. Baker, narrator, Beatrice Rana, piano. Adagio, Barber, A Lincoln Portrait, Copland, A Farmer’s Symphony, Estacio, Piano Concerto No.1, Tchaikovsky. Sunday Prelude, 1:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Thursday March 7, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Case Scaglione, conductor, Eric Buchmann, ESO Interim Concermaster, violin. Music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, and other Russian composers. Winspear Centre.
Satuday March 9, 2013 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Symphony for Kids. Songs of Our Land. Lucas Waldin, conductor. Play and Learn pre-concert activities for the whole family 1-1:45pm. Winspear Centre.
Friday March 15, 2013 7:30pm and Saturday March 16, 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Charles Pilon, ESO Assistant Principal Viola. The Italian Girl in Algiers – Overture, Rossini, Fountains of Rome, Respighi, Harold in Italy, Berlioz, Torque, Kulesha, An American in Paris, Gershwin. March 15 - Afterthoughts – casual post-concert conversation with D.T. Baker, main lobby. March 16 – Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Friday March 29, 2013 7:30pm Pro Coro Canada - Good Friday. Requiem, Mozart and Canadian Premiere of Peter Togni's Missa Liberationes. Winspear Centre.
April 5-6, 2013 7:30 Alberta Ballet – Celebrating Mozart. Jubillee Auditorium.
Friday April 12, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. José Luis Gomez, conductor, Benjamin Grosvenor, piano. Piano Concerto in A minor, Schumann, Spirit Trail, Bell, Symphony No.5, Tchaikovsky. Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
April 12, 13, 14, 2013 Details and times TBA. 3rd Annual Early Music Alberta Festival. Locations TBA.
April 19, 21, 23 and 25, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Opera – Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky). Jubillee Auditorium.
Friday May 3, 2013 9:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Late Night. William Eddins, conductor, Christopher O’Riley, piano. Music by Radiohead, Frank Zappa, and Nick Drake alongside Shostakovich and Ravel. Drinks and live entertainment in the main lobby after the concert. Winspear Centre.
Saturday May 4, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Christopher O’Riley, piano. Mother Goose Suite and Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Ravel, Piano Concertino, Françaix, Symphony No.2, Sibelius. Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Sunday May 5, 2013 2:30pm Pro Coro Canada - Colours of Love. Michael Zaugg, conductor. Music by Monteverdi, Brahms, and Daniel Lesur. All Saints' Anglican Cathedral. $30, $25.
Saturday May 11, 2013 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – Symphony for Kids. Symphony Cirque. Lucas Waldin, conductor. Play and Learn pre-concert activities 1-1:45pm. Winspear Centre.
Thursday May 16, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Bob Bernhardt, conductor, ESO musician soloists. Rondo alla Turca, Mozart, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Grieg. Winspear Centre.
Friday May 17 and Saturday May 18, 2013 Time? Shean Strings Competition. $8000 top prize and the opportunity to perform with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Location? http://www.sheancompetition.com/
Wednesday May 22, 2013 7:30pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Chloë Hanslip, violin. Suite No.3, Bach, Concerto Grosso No.2, Scarlatti, Suite from the Royal Fireworks Music, Handel, Violin Concerto No.1, Paganini. Winspear Centre.
Sunday May 26, 2013 2pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Chad Hoopes, violin, Brian Jones, marimba. Suite No.3, Bach, Marimba Concerto, Rosauro, Violin Concerto No.1, Bruch. Sunday Prelude, 1:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Saturday June 1, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor. Song of Destiny, Brahms, Pavane, Fauré, Psalm 150, Franck, Always be True, Gilliand, Symphony No.3 – Organ, Saint-Saëns. Symphony Prelude, 7:15pm Upper Circle lobby. Winspear Centre.
Tuesday June 4, 2013 7pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins and Claude Lapalme, conductors, Naomi Delafield, violin, Eric Buchmann, violin. Music of John Williams. Winspear Centre.
Friday June 14, 2013 7:30pm and Saturday June 15, 2013 8pm Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. William Eddins, conductor, Lynn Harrell, cello. Brio, Estacio, Don Quixote, Strauss, The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky. Afterthoughts – casual post-concert conversation hosted by D.T. Baker, main lobby. Winspear Centre.
