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By: Abigail Richardson-Schulte HPO Composer-in-Residence As a kid, I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I would read them backward and forwards to find all imaginable endings. For Rimsky’s K…

By Daniel Sheridan When one considers the gap between Tchaikovsky’s enduring popularity with concert audiences and the struggles for critical respectability his work has endured during his lifetime …

The annual HPO Composer Festival returns! This year we celebrate and honour the incomparable Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with several talks and performances in the community, as well as our Mainstage per…

As the year (and decade) comes to an end, the HPO is looking back on our significant moments of 2019! This calendar year has been a busy one with the latter half of a spectacular 18-19 Season and the …

There is snow on the ground and twinkle lights on trees, which means, if you haven’t already, it’s time to think about holiday gifts you may want to exchange with loved ones. The HPO is here to he…

By Vince Agro & Charles Criminisi On the occasion of the HPO’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, we want to share with you the story of Italians in Hamilton. Original immigrants f…