A Bass Story
CPO Bass Player Patricia Bereti-Reid told us the very cool back story behind her 1879 double bass. Montreal, Juilliard, and New York all played a part. In 1988, I had just finished school at Indiana [...]
Meeting the Conductor of Fantasia 2000!
It's Thanksgiving weekend, and we're excited to perform highlights from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 at our Disney's Fantasia: Live in Concert performances! Here's a neat story, courtesy of CPO Bass Player Matt Heller, about meeting the [...]
A Polish Spectacular at the CPO
Only one day until Polish Week at the CPO begins! Our Friday and Saturday concerts, Polish Spectacular: Chopin, Górecki and Other Masters, feature world-renowned pianist Krzysztof Jablonski who performs Chopin's Piano Concertos No. 1 (Friday, September [...]
Preparing a Musical Feast
"...I’m excited about every concert I’m performing. Whatever I am conducting that day is my favourite." - CPO Music Director Roberto Minczuk The CPO’s 2014/2015 Season is in full swing! We sat down with our [...]
Quirky Instruments
The start of the Season is only 10 days away with A Taste of the CPO! We headed down to our storage room to check out some of our instruments. There were tonnes of neat instruments [...]
Resident Composer Reflects on GlobalFest
A look back on GlobalFest with the Resident Composer…the CPO’s own Assistant Concertmaster, Donovan Seidle! This year, Donovan composed the required piece for all the international teams to use in their fireworks displays. He tells [...]
Remembering CPO Super-Patron, Geoff Pressacco (1984-2014)
Blog courtesy of CPO Assistant Principal Bassoon, Michael Hope. I’ll never forget one day back in 2002. We were in the concert hall and we had a particularly raucous audience of children. They seemed to [...]
Classical Music Crash Course
We have something for every musical taste in our 2014/2015 Season – including classical concerts, such as our performance on October 3 and 4 with Calgary’s own Jan Lisiecki! Sometimes, classical music can seem intimidating [...]
Welcome to the Wild West!
There’s a new chamber group in town, and it has some familiar faces! Several local musicians (many from our own Orchestra) have teamed up with the CPO’s former Associate Conductor Mélanie Léonard to form [...]
Our Assistant Concertmaster is GlobalFest’s Resident Composer!
GlobalFest is coming up fast (August 14-23) and we're excited that our Assistant Concertmaster, Donovan Seidle, is the Resident Composer! We chatted with Donovan about what his role is all about. Q: What does being a Resident Composer [...]