Please join us for a joint online concert with the University of Waterloo Balinese Gamelan Ensemble and the Grebel Community Gamelan. The video premiere will be released on Thursday, December 9 at 7pm, and will be posted on this website.
Please join us for the online premiere of the Orchestra@UWaterloo Fall Term concert. The orchestra is directed by Daniel Warren, and this term consists of string players only. Members include undergraduate students, grad students, staff, and alumni.
Please join us for a tribute to the arrangers of big band jazz presented by the University of Waterloo Jazz Ensemble. Directed by Michael Wood, the Jazz Ensemble has been a crowd favourite for many years. Special guest saxophonist and UW alumni Ernie Kalwa will also join the band.
The University Choir performs an eclectic range of music from around the world. Directed by Liska Jetchick, the choir consists of students and alumni from all six faculties. This Spring term they will perform Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, composed in 1965.
Please join us for the Spring Term orchestra@uwaterloo concert. Directed by Daniel Warren, this orchestra includes students from across the University in all 6 Faculties.
The performance will include the following pieces:
Don Giovanni Overture - W.A. Mozart
Valse Triste - Jean Sibelius
Pavane - Gilbert Fauré
Symphony No. 4 - Felix Mendelssohn
Join us for an engaging jazz concert in July. Directed by Michael Wood, the Jazz Ensemble has members from all 6 Faculties, particularly Mathematics. This term they will be featuring the music of Mike Tomaro … Neal Hefti … Dave Wolpe & Rob McConnell.
Tickets will be available at the door, or from Jazz Ensemble members.
Directed by Ben Bolt-Martin, 7 different Instrumental Chamber Trios will perform a wide range of classical music pieces. Free admission.
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.
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.