September 30, 2023 – May 5, 2024
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St, St. Catharines
Niagara Symphony Orchestra (NSO) welcome our audience back to the concert hall with an exciting 2023 Season! The 2023 concert season represents a new year of varied programming, spectacular guest artists and passionate performances by your Niagara Symphony Orchestra!
Learn all about our concerts and plan your NSO experience today.
September 30 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
October 1 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Special Event: Walking Through The Fire
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Sultans of String, Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk, Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Shannon Thunderbird, Don Ross, Leela Gilday, The North Sound, and a multimedia extravaganza featuring Northern Cree Powwow Group, Dr. Duke Redbird, Inuit singers, and more!
Award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists perform with JUNO Award nominees Sultans of String, in a musical multimedia event unlike any other! From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island/Canada.
October 22 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO NOW: The Classics of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Partridge Hall, will be alive with the sound of music as the NSO welcomes Charlotte Knight, Jay Dref, and Nathan Keoughan to sing the classics of Rodgers and Hammerstein. After highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II teamed up in July 1942 for their first collaboration: a musical adaptation of Green Grow the Lilacs. That musical would eventually become Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic Oklahoma!. A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by Carousel, South Pacific, The King And I, Cinderella, and The Sound of Music, all contributing songs to the Great American Songbook.
November 19 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO CLASSIC: : Taiko + Bolero
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
In Ishii’s Mono-Prism, the NSO is joined by the mesmerizing and heart-pounding taiko drum ensemble Nagata Shachu, their function being to disturb heaven and earth with their powerful sound and dynamism, and to awaken the sprits. Don Juan is an orchestral favourite due to the numerous technical and musical demands on each instrument. When Richard Strauss needed some local color for his opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose), he turned to the waltz it as shorthand for the elegance and grace of a bygone era. Ravel’s Bolero, known for its orchestral crescendo and featured soloists throughout the entire orchestra, could be his most famous composition, made even more famous by the ice dancing pair Torvill and Dean at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics.
December 16 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
NSO NOW: Brad’s Home for the Holidays
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Celebrate the holidays with the familiar sounds of the most enchanting season! The NSO’s festive concert tradition returns with holly and mistletoe, sweet sugar plums, vocalists Kaylee Harwood and Sayer Roberts, and the Laura Secord Secondary School Choir. Regardless of where you’re from, come home for the holidays with the NSO!
December 17 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO NOW: Brad’s Home for the Holidays
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Celebrate the holidays with the familiar sounds of the most enchanting season! The NSO’s festive concert tradition returns with holly and mistletoe, sweet sugar plums, vocalists Kaylee Harwood and Sayer Roberts, and the Laura Secord Secondary School Choir. Regardless of where you’re from, come home for the holidays with the NSO!
January 28, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO CLASSIC: Earthbeat + Brahms
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Erhuist Snow Bai brings her expressive and dynamic performance to the NSO stage with an instrument that is rarely seen. Ho’s Earthbeat is inspired by the traditions of Canada’s First Nations community, bringing one closer to the Earth’s “heartbeat.” Jiang’s River Memory is a work inspired by the Niagara Falls, contemplating on the transformation of human identity as part of the immigration and diaspora experience. Beloved composer Lau’s Between the Earth and Forever, is a poetic evocation of the space between our home and the universe, the familiar and the unknown, the earthly and the transcendent, the preciousness of nature and the abyss of environmental disaster. Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 is the last of his symphonies and possibly his finest and most moving.
February 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
NSO NOW: Soulful
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Come celebrate 50 years of R&B, Motown, Funk, Disco, and Pop by some of the finest African American recording artists and performers like Smokey Robinson, Outkast, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Isaac Hayes, and Seal. Featuring three-time Juno Award nominee and long-time member of the iconic Canadian a cappella group, The Nylons, Gavin Hope is a natural born performer. With his lightning speed comedic timing, skills on the dance floor, and truly exceptional, velvety, emotional voice, Hope is always a fan favourite!
February 11, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO NOW: Soulful
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Come celebrate 50 years of R&B, Motown, Funk, Disco, and Pop by some of the finest African American recording artists and performers like Smokey Robinson, Outkast, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Isaac Hayes, and Seal. Featuring three-time Juno Award nominee and long-time member of the iconic Canadian a cappella group, The Nylons, Gavin Hope is a natural born performer. With his lightning speed comedic timing, skills on the dance floor, and truly exceptional, velvety, emotional voice, Hope is always a fan favourite!
March 3, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO CLASSIC: Next Gen. Beethoven
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Who doesn’t love Beethoven? Two young talents bring twice the energy to two piano concertos! Piano Concerto No. 4 is a favorite of concert audiences and considered by many to be one of the pinnacles of the piano concerto repertoire. Piano Concerto No. 5 is known as the Emperor Concerto although it has no association with any emperor. It’s military aspects and symbolism characterize its heroic style. The Coriolan Overture represents Coriolanus’ resolve and war-like tendencies as he is about to invade Rome. The Egmont Overture, one of the last works of Beethoven’s “middle period,” is powerful and expressive and has become as famous a composition as the Coriolan Overture.
April 13, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
NSO NOW: Classic Rock Radio
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Rock out to the greatest classic rock songs of all time! The music of Queen, The Who, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, and many more performed by an all-star band, backed by the full power of NSO!
May 5, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NSO CLASSIC: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
Partridge Hall, 250 St Paul St.
Niagara native Jocelyn Fralick, Turkish-Canadian Beste Kalender, the BPC, and the LSSSC join the NSO for a rousing finale to the NSO’s Diamond Anniversary Season. Voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 is known as the Resurrection Symphony. One of his most popular and successful works, it was also his first major composition that established his lifelong view of the beauty of the afterlife, and resurrection. In this large work, Mahler further developed the creative “sound of the distance,” his goal to compose a “world of its own,” aspects of which were already seen in Mahler’s First Symphony.
