LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Pre-concert chat with Music Director Jeffrey Pollock and the composers in the lobby at 6:00 pm

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Sinfonia is proud to present this concert dedicated to the land on which the Memorial Arts Centre sits and the people who first lived on that land. Beethoven’s 6th symphony — a work that celebrates the composer’s love and experience of Nature — begins the evening. The entire second half features works by Turtle Island composers that also glorify the natural world: Cree composer Jessica McMann’s work Miskwa’s Mountain Home, Anishinaabe composer Spy Dénommé-Welch’s Rouge Winter and the world premiere of Mohawk composer Dawn Avery’s Indian Territory, a Sinfonia Ancaster commission.

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Friday, December 15, 2023 at 7:00 pm

 

Ho-ho-ho! Sinfonia Ancaster presents a spectacular concert filled with festive holiday arrangements, a Christmas story, and an audience singalong! Special guests Strata Vocal Ensemble will add extra sparkle and magic to this evening that will appeal to the child in us all.

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HALF THE SKY

Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm

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Who’s Louise Farrenc? A mid-19th century composer much admired by Schumann and Berlioz. For this concert, Sinfonia performs her unjustly neglected Symphony #3, a remarkable work that clearly warrants a place in the orchestral canon. The evening also features Sinfonia concertmaster Megan Jones and viola coach Elspeth Thomson in starring roles as joint soloists in Mozart’s glorious Sinfonia Concertante.

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UNABASHEDLY ROMANTIC

Friday, May 10, 2024 at 7:00 pm

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Sinfonia Ancaster is thrilled to be joined by Ancaster’s own, world-renowned pianist Valerie Tryon for this performance of the much beloved Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg. Tchaikovsky’s brilliant Symphony #2, a piece inspired by Ukrainian folk songs, brings our season to a triumphant conclusion.

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