2022/2023 Season

Special guest Jonathan Crow joins us to celebrate our 60th anniversary! Hear him play the Brahms’ Violin Concerto right here in Etobicoke before he performs it downtown with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107 "Reformation"

Experience a dramatic concert featuring Kulesha's "Fireworks and Processional" with strings and brass, followed by Rachmaninoff's intense "Piano Concerto No. 2" performed by guest soloist Kara Huber. The night will also feature Louise Farrenc's "Symphony No. 2 in D major" and the world premiere of Dr. Matthew Emery's "Unanswered Letters."

Gary Kulesha

Fireworks and Processional

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Louise Farrenc

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 35

Matthew Emery

Unanswered Letters

After two long years, we can return to well-loved EPO traditions—familiar Christmas selections, audience-sourced ‘Conductor for a Moment,’ lively carol sing-along. Our special gift this year? Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with Lauren Yeomans and Rose Soenen. Get your tickets early as this concert typically sells out!

John Finnegan

Christmas Singalong

Leroy Anderson

Sleigh Ride

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K. 299/297c

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Selections from Nutcracker Suite No. 1

Traditional

Shenandoah

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Christmas Overture

Join us as we explore rhythm: that invisible force that can propel us forward in excitement, panic, or joy, or slow us down with sadness, nostalgia or dreamy reverie.

Johannes Brahms

Hungarian Dance No. 5 in D minor

Johann Pachelbel

Canon in D, P 37

Dmitri Shostakovich

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Overture from The Marriage of Figaro

Terry Riley

In C

Ludwig van Beethoven

Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

New experiences are often a source of inspiration, as Dvorak demonstrated by composing his 9th Symphony while visiting the New World. We take his cue in the rest of this program with pieces new to us (and to you?)

Umberto Quattrociocchi

Grazie Altrettanto

Larysa Kuzmenko

A Prayer for String Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Ballade for Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World, Op. 95

Experience the passion of humanity and power of nature through Mahler's Symphony No. 1 and Kevin Lau's "Sea of Blossoms," contrasted with Mozart, Puccini, Delibes, and Lehar. Soprano Christina Haldane captures a range of human emotions from joy to sorrow in this deeply moving concert.

Kevin Lau

Sea of Blossoms

Léo Delibes

Les filles de Cadix

Giacomo Puccini

O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi

Franz Lehár

Viljia from The Merry Widow

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alleluja from Exsultate Jubilate

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 1 in D major, Titan