A few more SSO gift ideas!
We couldn’t fit all our Christmas gift ideas for the classical music lover in your life into one post….so, we have two more brilliant ideas! For the Piano Lovers We all have that family member …
Messiah Artist – Adam Harris
Adam Harris We welcome Adam back for his second performance of Handel’s Messiah with the SSO! Canadian baritone Adam Harris has been described as an intuitively musical and distinctively dramatic young performer. He has most …
Messiah Artist -Lisa Hornung
Lisa Hornung Having performed across Western Canada, the United States, and Europe, Lisa is always happy to be close to home with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. And so are we! Lisa has long been a …
Messiah Artist – Danika Lorèn
Danika Lorèn If you missed it the first time in 2016, here is your chance to see Danika’s exhilarating performance in Handel’s Messiah. As a performer Danika is known for her versatility and dramatic sensitivity. …
Messiah Artist – Spencer McKnight
Spencer McKnight Tenor Spencer McKnight has been described as “one of the finest tenor voices” in Canada. This year’s performance of Handel’s Messiah sees tenor Spencer McKnight back on stage with the SSO. Returning audiences …
Sing-Along Messiah FAQs
Messiah time is almost here! We love putting together and performing Handel’s Messiah each year. If it were possible we would fit everyone from Saskatoon’s large choral community on stage with us for one amazing …
Is Joy to the World in Messiah?
Have you ever been listening to Handel’s Messiah and thought “wait, is that Joy to the World?” Well no, you’re not hearing Joy to the World, but you’re not completely wrong. Joy to the …
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Part of our exciting celebration on December 7th will be telling of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. The popular prose of Dylan Thomas‘ recollection of Christmases past were made famous by Caedmon Records in 1952 …
Come join Elly Thorn and Dean McNeill in the Holiday Cheer!
With holiday preparations in full swing, the SSO would love to give you some Christmas cheer on Saturday, December 7th! Our cocnert Christmas with the SSO will feature many guests with the orchestra, including two very …
Homecoming – The return of SYO and their Featured Alumni
On November 16th, the SSO will see the return of the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra alongside them onstage. It has been nine months since these forces have last joined, playing the Roman Carnival Overture by Hector …
Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony
Incomplete works are an inevitable feature of most composers’ catalogues. After all, they are no more likely than anyone else to receive specific advance notice of when they will reach their coda. In the case …
Vivian Fung’s Violin Concerto No. 1
Although music has often been described as a universal language, the way that it has been created, performed, and appreciated throughout history has been largely determined by geography, ethnicity, and social status. In the twentieth …
Meet Heather Schmidt
Heather Schmidt’s unique dual talents as a pianist and composer have garnered praise from the press, describing her as “a brilliant virtuoso pianist”, “poised and utterly musical”, “a great artist”, and “as much a pianist …
Holst’s The Planets
Of all the great music composed in England during the past hundred years, few works have been either so popular or as enduring as Gustav Holst’s The Planets, yet with the exception of an important …
Piazzolla’s Four Seasons
Astor Piazzolla was fabulously talented, and that wealth of talent caused him some confusion as he tried to decide on a career path. Very early, he learned to play the bandoneón, the accordion-like instrument that …
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
The Four Seasons (Italian: “Le quattro stagioni”) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written …
Musician Spotlight: Brian Unverricht
While reading through your Opening Night program you may have noticed that we did a spotlight on one of our musicians. You know Brian Unverricht as a member of our trombone section and you may …
Saskatchewan’s Laura Pettigrew
The SSO has decided we want to be the change we want to see in orchestral music – so this year we’re highlighting the music of living female composers…in fact, every Masters Series concert has …
Carnegie Hall’s Link Up with the SSO
Have you ever been to Carnegie Hall? Many people dream to one day visit the world famous music hall, and now students in Saskatoon have the opportunity to have a close connection with it! The …
Stéphane Tétreault’s Return with the SSO
After his truly amazing SSO debut, Stéphane is back…and with another one of the great cello concertos! He and the “Countess of Stainlein, Ex-Paganini” will perform the Dvořák Cello Concerto on September 21st. The 1707 …
Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
It was Victor Herbert, the composer of Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta, who inspired Dvořák to write the most beloved cello concerto in the repertory. We owe this historical curiosity, along with some of …
Brahms’ Fourth Symphony
I shall never write a symphony! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6SN4tPbv8] Brahms famously declared in 1872. “You can’t have any idea what it’s like to hear such a giant marching behind you.” The giant was Beethoven, of course, …
What are they up to?
As we’re preparing for our upcoming season to start, we thought we’d share what some of our guest artists are up to this summer! Carissa Klopoushak Before getting back to the swing of things playing …
