Five Fun Facts about Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters hit movie theatres 35 years ago. It became the highest grossing comedy of all time (until Home Alone in 1990) and earned two Oscar nominations, including Best Original Song. The score was [...]
CPO Double Bassist Graeme Mudd on reuniting with Hans Graf and closing out 30 years with the Orchestra
Graeme Mudd, longtime member of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s double bass section, is looking forward to seeing some familiar faces at Electra Rising: Forsyth Cello Concerto on 18 and 19 October. Mudd has [...]
Five Fun Facts about Mary Poppins
Walt Disney considered Mary Poppins (1964) one of the crowning achievements of his career. The first feature-length film to combine live action and animation, it earned 13 Oscar nominations and won five, including [...]
The power of movie music: my game-changing moment
When it comes to music, what was your game-changing moment? The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating Game Changers this Season. In the 2019/2020 brochure, audience members can read about several CPO musicians’ game-changing [...]
Anne-Marie MacIntosh on sharing her love of opera with CPO audiences
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 [...]
Heather Edwards brings Itzhak Perlman to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
When Heather Edwards was a youth, her mother gave her a surprise that has had a long-lasting impact: tickets to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) to see world-renowned Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman. “I [...]
Meet the Musician: Assistant Principal Horn Maxwell Stein
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is welcoming new musicians this 2019/2020 Season. We’ll be introducing them to you with our “Meet the Musician” blog series. Follow along to get to know your CPO! [...]
Laurie Matiation on retiring from the horn section after 36 years with the CPO
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 [...]
Game-Changing Moments
RUNE BERGMANN MUSIC DIRECTOR "As we put together this Season, the Orchestra musicians and I reflected on our game-changing musical moments. In my early childhood I spent time listening to my father play [...]
Meet the Musician: Season highlights from the strings
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) welcomed seven new musicians to the strings sections this 2018/2019 Season — four violinists, two cellists, and one bassist. Over the last few months, they’ve been introduced to Calgary [...]