As a young child, Jennifer Bone, our featured audience member, received her first introduction to classical music through her grandmother and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) itself. “My grandmother, who had fled Soviet Russia [...]
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is welcoming eight new musicians this 2018/2019 Season. We’ll be introducing them to you with our “Meet the Musician” blog series. Follow along to get to know your CPO! [...]
This Remembrance Day weekend, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) will perform Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, the colossal liturgical work for chorus and orchestra. The nearly 90-minute piece will occupy the entire program on [...]
JoAnn FallettaPhoto by David dam Beloff Calgary. November. Think hot! Barcelona! Spain! Guitars! A warm evening full of luscious talent and incredible beauty! Welcome to the Jack Singer, the CPO and Maestra [...]
Gemma New Photo by Roy Cox I had the pleasure of attending Maestra Gemma New’s fabulous “Greatest Classical Hits” concert on 27 October — and it was a great classical hit! Conductor [...]
Photo: Fred Stucker We’ve started the season off with a wonderful selection of music and now, just in time for Halloween, comes the appropriately titled “A Little Night Music.” The Brussa Brava! [...]
Col Cseke from Inside Out Theatre + Karl Hirzer Associate Conductor The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) believes that music is for everyone, and one of their recent concerts was a perfect [...]
Alex Cohen, Principal Timpani of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO), has been listening to music his entire life — literally. Cohen says he and his sister Diana Cohen, Concertmaster of the CPO, were [...]
The tuba is the youngest instrument in the orchestra, and it also happens to be one of the loudest. But this week, according to Tom McCaslin, Principal Tuba of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra [...]
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes eight new musicians for the 2018/2019 Season. Over the next few weeks, we’ll introduce them to you with our “Meet the Musician” blog series. Follow along to get to [...]
