Classical music and opera are complementary art forms, as soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh can certainly attest. She sang in children’ choirs and played violin at a young age, then started taking voice lessons when [...]

In 1983, horn player Laurie Matiation found herself living every professional musician’s nightmare — abrupt unemployment. After five years of working with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (ASO), an ensemble that she’d joined before [...]

Slavko Popovic, Principal Clarinet of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO), has a number of reasons to be excited for Prokofiev + Mahler with Yefim Bronfman on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1. [...]

This week, David Sussman will get to perform on an instrument so uncommon, there are reportedly only half a dozen of them in the entire province. Sussman, the Assistant Principal Oboe of the [...]

Hikoi setup in Jack Singer Rehearsal Hall with Josh Jones Photo: Greg MacKay A little over a year ago, Josh Jones, Principal Percussionist of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO), was enjoying his [...]