featuring the music of Weather Report, Hoagy Carmichael, Matt Harris, and Gordon Goodwin...
Joy Lapps Project, a steelpan led ensemble exploring Afro and Latin-Caribbean Jazz, with a hint of R&B and soul. Joy will share repertoire from her most recent release Girl In The Yard and also explore new arrangements of a few covers we know and love.
Join soprano Bethany Horst and pianist Charmaine Fopoussi for a February Recital of loves songs, featuring the Song of Songs by Canadian Srul Irving Glick as well as selections by Strauss and Delibes.
Arab & Iraqi Classical music performed by the Maqamat Orchestra
Jung Tsai, the accomplished 2nd Associate Concertmaster of the KW Symphony, will perform 20th Century violin works. Franz Waxman’s virtuoso violin showpiece will be featured, entitled Carmen Fantasie. Other pieces include a work by eminent Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum, called Les Ombres.
Written by Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf is a "symphonic fairy tale for children". The narrator tells a children's story, while the musicians illustrate it by using different instruments to represents each character in the story.
Poland Parables, music by Carol Ann Weaver, is a set of pieces based on text by Canadian Mennonite writer Connie Braun who recounted difficult, impossible, and heart-rending stories from her own family members during WWII, Poland — stories of displacement, trauma, loss, and hardship.
Students in the Spring 2024 Music Studio courses perform music they have studied this term in three end-of-term recitals.
All are welcome.
Last month, the Theatre of the Arts at the University of Waterloo was brimming with thrumming beats, haunting voices, layered melodies, and a unique blend of electronic cello and traditional Indigenous music. As part of the Indigenous-Mennonite Encounters conference organized by Conrad Grebel University College, Indigenous and Mennonite musicians offered a concert that addressed relationships, beauty, nature, hope, and betrayal.
New this year is Spring term Jazz Ensemble!
See Jazz Ensemble page for details. Students from all faculties welcome, including Grad students. This ensemble is directed by Michael Wood, and will start with auditions on May 2nd. There will be an end of term concert as well.