2024/2025 Season

Join us on a curated tour of great music from masterworks that have captivated audiences for centuries to powerful pieces of our time.

This season includes Dvorak Symphony No. 7, Beethoven Symphony No. 3 Eroica, Schumann Symphony No. 1, works by Brahms, Shostakovich, Estacio, Prokofiev, Strauss and more.

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Upcoming Concerts

Autumn Radiance

October 18, 2024

Pianist Michael Kim has played to standing-ovation audiences across the Americas, UK and Korea. Now he opens our new season with the dramatic musical colours of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor. Enjoy a touch of Canadian pumpkin spice with Christine Donkin's "Three Autumn Scenes". Reflecting autumn as a transitional season, let Dvorak transport you from a brooding opening of doubt to the satisfying firm finale of his Symphony No. 7.

Greatness Unveiled

November 22, 2024

Sometimes ‘greatness’ is not immediately perceived. Each piece in this concert was initially met with skepticism or scorn but is now counted among the greatest music ever written. Beethoven’s innovatively long, large Eroica initially had mixed reviews but he considered it his most important symphony, as would future generations. Soloist Erika Raum will prove Tchaikovsky was right about his great Violin Concerto, though it took many years for audiences to agree. It wasn’t until 30 years after “Pecheurs de Perles" premiered, sadly long after Bizet's death, that it was embraced. Now it is his most popular opera after “Carmen”.

Winter Celebrations

December 13, 2024

It may be cold outside, but celebrating the season together is sure to warm your heart! Special treats include an audience-sourced 'Maestro for a Moment' guest conductor, musician-filled gift baskets raffle, a rousing sing-along and our own Gavin Warren playing Rietz’s Clarinet Concerto.

The Great Sing-Off

January 26, 2025

Symphony meets spoken word in this year’s innovative Discovery concert! We bring you two very different musical genres for a fascinating musical conversation that explores their contrasts and – perhaps surprising – similarities. Prokofiev’s iconic “Peter and the Wolf” gets the CDHLive treatment with Craig Doyle’s unique narration of the story.

Agony and Ecstasy

March 21, 2025

Deeply moving works that will be cathartic for you, as they were for their composers across three different centuries. Brahms said his Tragic Overture “weeps” and, 140 years later, Simon Rivet elicits the same feeling in his hauntingly beautiful “Ellipse of a Cry”. Shostakovich untangles a range of powerful emotions as a Russian under Stalin through his Symphony No. 10.

Jubilations of Spring

May 9, 2025

Schumann’s “Spring Symphony” No. 1 and Alice Ho’s “Jubilations of Spring” are perfect pieces to re-energize and revive our spirits, reflecting this time of growth and fresh starts. Soprano Jennifer Taverner soars in Estacio's “Filumena”, Novello's “We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring” and you’ll leave humming familiar excerpts from Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus”.