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Our 2024 winter term concert will feature composers who have contributed to this music’s unique history.  Influences of  Brazilian Samba,  driven Big Band Swing and the odd meter Jazz Waltz will be presented.  A few of the composers contributing this term are  Gordon Goodwin, Sammy Niehaus, Tito Puento and Quincy Jones.  

Come and join us as we journey once again into America’s Music … “Jazz”. 

Full House Brass are five versatile and creative brass players: two trumpets, one French horn, and two trombones.They  play a variety of musical styles ranging from Classical to Jazz, that is both eclectic and entertaining.

The KW Wind Quintet will present a concert for all ages, with a mix of familiar melodies and sprightly new tunes.

The trio of Annette Barbara Vogel (violin), Tom Landshoot (cello) and Mehdi Ghazi (piano) will perform Schoenfield's Cafe Music (hence the title) and Mendelssohn's Trio No. 1 in D minor.

Violinist Jung Tsai, accompanied by pianist Anna Ronai, will perform works by Eugene Ysaye, Karol Szymanovski, and George Gershwin.

Mezzo-soprano Caroline Schmidt will perform songs by Canadian women composers, accompanied by pianist Christine Klaver-Schmidt. These works delve into a variety of aspects of life through song: the beauty of nature and love, but also the pain that makes all of our lives bittersweet.

Andromeda Trio was recently awarded grants from Canada Council for the Arts and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund to commission, workshop and record a piece by Canadian composer, Karen Sunabacka, which will explore Métis-Mennonite relations in Canada, which reflects the ancestries of our ensemble.

An adaption of the Iliad in song, written and performed by Joe Goodkin.  This is a sequel to his performance of the Odyssey, also by Homer.

Magdalena Tomsinska will play various plucked instruments originating between the 13th and the 17th century.  Rebecca MacKay will sing period pieces that showcase the instruments.