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.
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.
Guest Voice Masterclass with Bethany Horst. Student performers Lucas Woolfe, Vladimir Mlostschek and Jessica Ernewein. Accompanist Reobecca Booker.
Arab & Iraqi Classical music performed by the Maqamat Orchestra
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.
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.
Dvorak's Cello Concerto with soloist Robert Choi, and Tchaikovsky Symphony n. 6 are on the programme this term.
The University of Waterloo Chamber Choir sings a wide range of music including motets celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death in 1623, tintinnabuli music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and Vivaldi’s effervescent Gloria!
Come and join the University Choir as they explore themes of being together through repertoire by Schütz, Mendelssohn, Saindon, Runestad, and Pasek & Paul.
Students participating in the current Music Studio course perform music they have studied this term. See detailed program below.