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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 [...]

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 [...]

"...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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We had so many great concerts this Season - thanks again to all of you for joining us! We asked some of our musicians to reflect on the Season and their favourite concerts...which ones were [...]