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Igor Stravinsky was one of the great modernist innovators of the 20th century. He was born the same year as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf (1882), and in the early 1910s he was [...]

In 2002, a young composer named Vincent Ho was inspired by paintings he saw in a small gallery in Edmonton. That day, Ho took the gallery’s business card and wrote the artist’s name on [...]

Alexina Louie, one of Canada’s most acclaimed composers, will be in the spotlight this week for Quintets, a free online performance premiering Saturday 17 October at 7:30PM (MDT) as part of the Calgary [...]

It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the beginning of our 2020/2021 Season and to introduce a few of the pieces we'll play for you at the premiere of the first concert on [...]

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” — Plato I’m extremely excited that the Calgary Philharmonic is finally back onstage. This [...]

Originally published in August 2020 on the Arts Commons blog. Shortly after COVID-19 shut down stages across the country, musicians from the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra recorded a virtual performance [...]