2024 | 2025 concert season
Welcome to the Kindred Spirits Orchestra 2024-2025 concert season! Under the direction of Maestro Kristian Alexander, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra will present a 9-concert series in the cities of Toronto and Markham. Our opening night gala will be on October 19, 2024 at the Flato Markham Theatre, where we will also perform in December 2025 and February 2025. Then, in March, May and June 2024, we will present our concert series “3 at the Weston” in Toronto’s premium Meridian Arts Centre – George Weston Recital Hall. In June 2025, we will conclude our season with a concert at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio, followed by our traditional Canada Day celebration on July 1, 2025 at the Unionville Millennium Theatre.
Highlights of the season include Bruckner‘s Symphony No. 6, Verdi‘s Messa da Requiem, Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 7, Debussy‘s La mer and Scriabin‘s Poem of ecstasy as well as a world première of a Concerto for piano trio and string orchestra by Gary Kulesha and world premières of another two pieces by Hong Kong composers.
The Gryphon trio with pianist Jamie Parker, violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon and cellist Roman Borys will be the featured ensemble at the 14th annual Markham Contemporary Music Festival co-presented by the KSO at the Cornell Recital Hall. Award-winning cellist Winona Zelenka will make his début with the KSO in Dvořák’s Concerto for cello and orchestra. Principal Violinist of the Regina Symphony Orchestra Heng-Han Hou will also make his début with the KSO in Barók’s Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1. Acclaimed pianist Michael Berkovsky will return to the Flato Markham Theatre with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and internationally renowned pianist Dmitri Levkovich will make his début at the Meridian Arts Centre with Bartók’s Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1. Verdi’s Requiem will bring together the Orpheus Choir and the Resound Choir with soprano Natalya Gennadi, mezzo-soprano Danielle MacMillan, tenor Marcel D’Entremont and bass Dion Mazerolle.
Inside the 2024 | 2025 Concert Season
Dances and Dreams
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Flato Markham Theatre
Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty suite
Dvořák, Concerto for cello and orchestra
Lalo, Symphony in G minor
Impressions of the Sea
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Flato Markham Theatre
Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker suite
Saint-Saëns, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5
Debussy, La mer
Kaleidoscopic Sentiments
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Flato Markham Theatre
Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Gershwin, Rhapsody in blue for piano and orchestra
Scriabin, The Poem of ecstasy
A Night at the Opera
Saturday, March 8, 2025
George Weston Recital Hall
Bizet, Carmen suite No. 2
Bartók, Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1
Bruckner, Symphony No. 6
Gods and Griffons
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Cornell Recital Hall
Kulesha, Concerto for piano trio and strings
(KSO commission, world première)
Stravinsky, Apollon Musagète
Poems and Portraits
Saturday, May 10, 2025
George Weston Recital Hall
Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Bartók, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’
Verdi's Requiem
Saturday, June 21, 2025
George Weston Recital Hall
Verdi, Messa da requiem
The French Connection
Saturday, June 28, 2025
CBC Glenn Gould Studio
Debussy, La mer
Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Lalo, Symphony in G minor
Canada Day Celebration
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Unionville Millennium Theatre
Light Classics, Broadway and beyond
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