2024 - 2025
Hindemith & Haydn
Kingston Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.
Masterworks 4
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Prisms are fascinating objects, embodying the notion that if your perspective changes even slightly, you see something wholly unique and new. This concert features music which showcases different sides of composers and how multifaceted they can be, like a prism catching and refracting the light just so. A highlight of this concert is the reimagining of Hindemith’s Flute Sonata by Ryan Trew, newly orchestrated for flute and strings, featuring our own Principal Flute Amelia Lyon.
Program
Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3
Hindemith (arr. Ryan Trew)
Flute Sonata
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Haydn
Symphony No. 96
BIG TUNES
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
January 31, 2025 - 7:30 pm Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Program
Who doesn’t love a good melody? This concert puts singable, memorable melodies at the forefront, guaranteed to have you humming along far after the concert is finished. We present a true safari of amazing tunes, from the lush romantic melody of Mahler’s legendary “Adagietto” to the lean, lithe and beautiful melodies from Haydn’s “Clock” symphony. Rounding out the program is Ryan Trew’s Symphony no. 1, a piece absolutely bursting with gorgeous, singing melodies from nearly every bar. If you like a good tune, this concert is absolutely for you.
Trew – Symphony 1
Mahler – Adagietto from Symphony 5
Haydn – Symphony 101 “Clock”
Featuring
Evan Mitchell, Conductor
The Lost Birds
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
Evan Mitchell, conductor
Michael Swan, violin
Intermezzo (Come Closer) – Ryan Trew
Violin Concerto No.1, Op.14 – Henri Wieniawski
The Lost Birds – Christopher Tin
We’re celebrating 40 seasons with our very own concertmaster Michael Swan! He’ll take centre stage to perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No.1. Conductor Evan Mitchell leads your SSO, and choir, in Christopher Tin’s moving choral work The Lost Birds. Sweeping and elegiac, it’s a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced.
Come Closer: Sneak peek of a new Canadian opera
Canadian Opera Company Free Concert Series
Wednesday April 16, 2025 - 12pm
Vocal Series
Opera 5 presents a sneak peek of excerpts from the brand-new chamber opera Come Closer by composer Ryan Trew and librettist Rachel Krehm, which will premiere in Toronto in June 2025.
Come Closer is based on Rachel Krehm's experience losing her sister Elizabeth to drug addiction, and explores grief, reconnection, and healing after loss. Be the first in Toronto to experience this lush and arresting opera before its premiere with Opera 5!
Come Closer Chamber Opera World Premiere
June 13, 14, 18, 19, and 21, 2025 all at 7:30pm
Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst St, Toronto)
A part of Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival
A new Canadian opera that takes an emotional look at the grief of losing a sister, based on the personal experiences of Rachel Krehm, who lost her sister Elizabeth to addiction.
Composer: Ryan Trew
Librettist: Rachel Krehm