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Get to Know HPO 21-22 Composer Fellow Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins
Read MoreMaria Eduarda Mendes Martins is a composer, conductor and arts administrator living in Toronto, and one of the HPO 21-22 Composer Fellows. Her newest piece Echoing Mendelssohn, created during her time…
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Music Director Gemma New Makes a Triumphant Return to the HPO Mainstage
Read MoreMarch 7, 2002 HAMILTON, ON – Excitement abounds as the HPO celebrates the return of Music Director Gemma New to Hamilton to lead musicians in our next concert Gemma Conducts Mendelssohn on March 19,…
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Getting to Know Composer Felix Mendelssohn
Read More“Musical prodigies … are probably no longer so rare; but what this little man can do in extemporizing and playing at sight borders the miraculous, and I could not have believed it possible at so e…
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Getting to know Canadian actor R. H. Thomson
Read MoreCanadian stage and screen actor and director R. H. Thomson joins the HPO at our Hometown Holidays concert as a narrator on the piece Making Light, written by HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richar…
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Join us for an evening of collaboration and choral music with award-winning Estonian choir Collegium Musicale! HPO featuring Collegium Musicale Wednesday, June 1 at 8pm The Cotton Factory $35 General Admission Use the LINK IN BIO and click 'HPO featuring Collegium Musicale' to head to our website for tickets! @estonianmusicweek @cottonfactoryca #Estonian #Music #Choir #Choral #HPO #Orchestra #Contemporary #Concert #Hamont #Cottonfactory #Singing #Musicians
📢 Teachers in Hamilton, Halton and beyond 📢 Share our latest HPO #Student #Concert with your class! HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte hosts an #educational adventure through Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, paired with the poetry that inspired the #music, blending the arts with literacy and demonstrating how music can bring the elements of #storytelling to life. Supplementary teaching materials are provided and the performance will be available to watch online, and on-demand, from Monday, May 30 until Monday, June 13, 2022. For details and to order, head to The Four Seasons Student Concert page on our website through the LINK IN OUR BIO ⬆️ #HPO #Orchestra #Lesson #Hwdsb #Hdsb
You can support the HPO's community programming by entering our Spring 2022 Raffle! At $20.00 a ticket, one lucky winner will be stocked up for a #summer à la #sommolier with: 🍷 a BRAND NEW mini #wine fridge & 💲 over $500.00 in gift cards to #LCBO and select local restaurants 🍾 for a total #prize value of $1000.00! Use the link in our bio to visit the Spring 2022 Raffle page on our website and learn how to get tickets!
Thank you to all who came to one of our two Vivaldi's Four Seasons concerts last Saturday. From HPO soloist Bethany Bergman bringing the seasons to life, to the world premiere of Juliet Palmer's moving work 'fire break', to the thoughtful conducting by our gracious Guest Conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, it was an amazing day shared with many loyal community members and many first-time HPO audience members as well! Here are some photos we snapped on rehearsals, behind the scenes and concert day 📸 ************************************* TEACHERS: SHARE THIS PERFORMANCE WITH YOUR STUDENTS! Learn about The Four Seasons Student Concert with the link in our bio. @patrickduprequigley @urbanvessel #HPO #HPOmusicians #Vivaldi #Baroque #Violin #Solo #Live #Concert #Orchestra #Strings #Conductor #Composer #Student #Music #Education #Musicteacher #Hamont #hwdsb #hdsb #Hamilton #Halton
That's a wrap for our Vivaldi's Four Seasons matinée, and our musicians are set to do it all again at 7:30pm! Live tickets for tonight are still on our website and your ticket also grants you 14-day access to the concert recording. HPO Principal Second Violin Bethany Bergman put on an incredible performance of The Four Seasons as this concert's soloist. Here is what she told The Spec about preparing and performing a Baroque work: “The HPO is a modern symphonic orchestra, whose members play on modern instruments and bows with modern set-ups. As such, the instruments will be tuned at a modern pitch (A=440 Hz), played on steel or synthetic strings, and the modern, longer bows will also pull a more pronounced and bigger sound out of the instruments. Baroque instruments generally are smaller, are tuned a semitone lower, and are played on gut strings. The bows are shorter and lighter, which is fantastic for baroque-style instruments, but not so much on a modern instrument,” she said. “If I were to play on a baroque instrument and bow, it would only make sense if we were all playing on baroque instruments and bows. I do not feel that Vivaldi would mind the brilliance and power of our instruments, range of colour and dynamic, and higher pitch. The music is beautiful and evocative on any instrument.” Read the full article here: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/music/opinion/2022/05/12/hamilton-philharmonic-orchestra-vivaldi-four-seasons.html #HPO #HPOmusicians #Baroque #Violin #Solo #Concert #Orchestra #Livemusic #hamont #hamontmusic
Who remembers our May 1 concert, Postcards from Buenos Aires, when @danielblackconductor reminded us what a rock star our Concertmaster Stephen Sitarski is? Here is a #throwback to soloist Stephen Sitarski absolutely shredding Piazzolla on the #violin! Don't forget, you can still watch the digital concert on demand for 2 more days. This Saturday at 2pm and again at 7:30pm, another #HPO #musician, Principal Second Violin Bethany Bergman, takes the spotlight as soloist in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Come celebrate the sunny weather in #hamont with The Four Seasons, Bethany Bergman and the HPO! Visit hpo.org for tickets 🎶🎶🎶
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