This event has been postponed.
On the first weekend in November, some Grebel students led by Centre for Peace Advancement Director Paul Heidebrecht, along with President Marcus Shantz and Director of Advancement Fred W. Martin, will be in Lancaster to attend the MEDA convention. We want to take this opportunity to gather Grebel alumni, parents, and supporters from Pennsylvania to an informal reception on:
Please join us for a celebration of the diversity of church song in the Voices Together Hymnal, complete with congregational singing. Sing hymns and worship songs from German Mennonite, African American, Laotian, Ethiopian and other Christian traditions along with other lovers of church song.
Every two years the Orchestra@uwaterloo has a Concerto & Aria Competition, where the first prize is to play a solo with the orchestra. We are catching up on the pre-covid pandemic winners, and are delighted to present the first Runner-up from the 2020 competition, Garnet Zhao. Garnet will be performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18.
Today, Scotland’s patron saint, Andrew the Apostle, anchors Scottish national identity in an annual holiday on his feast day. But in the century leading up to the Scottish declaration of independence, the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, Saint Andrew’s significance expanded from that of a local saint to become the central figure in the foundation of Christianized Scotland. This lecture will feature the performance of medieval liturgical music made at the Cathedral of St Andrews to celebrate Saint Andrew’s relics, showing how liturgical music shaped history. The music will be performed by renowned counter-tenor, Daniel Cabena.
Please join us for the end of term concert at Knox Presbyterian Church on Friday, November 25 at 7:30pm. Gamelan ensembles are primarily percussive instruments made of bronze and bamboo but may include drums, flutes, strings, and voice. An oral tradition taught and learned collectively, repertoire is transmitted in a group setting without the use of sheet music. Directed by Balinese artist I Dewa Made Suparta since 2014, the students experience a communal process of creating music while also learning about the culture of Bali. See a brief interview with I Dewa Made Suparta explaining the Gamelan.
Come and join the University Choir as they explore themes of winter through works by G.F. Handel, Randall Stroope, Edward Elgar, Randall Thompson, and many more. Whether surrounded by the joyous runs of For Unto Us a Child is Born or the whistling wind of Rajaton's Pakkanen, there is sure to be a piece for everyone.
The fall Chamber Choir program explores themes of light and night in music that spans five hundred years, written by composers such as Palestrina, Josquin and Victoria of the Renaissance and Eric Whitacre, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Sarah Quartel of our own time.
The Choir will be accompanied by Madeline Weber, piano and a string quartet:
Karen Fu (violin), Frank Wang (violin), Ewan Simms (viola) and Robert Choi (cello)
Directed by Michael Wood, the 20 member Jazz Ensemble will present a concert featuring Canadian compositions and their composers.
5 different ICE groups will perform a wide variety of classical music pieces. Composers range from Mozart to Handel to Russell Peterson, so there will be something for everybody's taste. Participating students are from multiple departments, including Computer Science, Engineering, and Music.