SEASON 2023-2024 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES CONCERTS

FUN AND FANCIFUL

Sept 30 @ 7:30 pm

St. Paul L’Amoreaux Anglican Church, 3333 Finch Ave. E

Featuring: Odin Quartet, with Jacob Clewell, viola and Ronald Royer, cello

Chamber Music that engages an audience, from Tchaikovsky’s showpiece to enjoyable Canadian compositions hot off the presses.  Join us as the SPO launches another album “Between the Lines”, featuring the Odin Quartet, with this exciting concert.

Máté Szűcs, Showpieces for Viola and Orchestra

Nov 3 @ 7:30 pm 

Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel

Featuring: SPO, Ronald Royer, Conductor, Máté Szűcs, Viola

International classical star, violist Máté Szűcs takes the stage with the SPO for the world premiere of a virtuosic new viola concerto, conducted by the composer, SPO’s own Ronald Royer. 

Ludwig van Beethoven: King Stephen Overture

Ferenc Farkas:  Rumanian Dances from Bihar, for Viola and Orchestra

*Ronald Royer: Viola Concerto (Premiere)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 (“Mozartiana”)

HOLIDAY MEMORIES

DEC 2 @ 7:30 pm

Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel 

Featuring: SPO, Ronald Royer, Conductor, Bel Canto Choir, Michael Morgan, Conductor, SPO Women’s Choir, Yiping Chao, Conductor

Make your own memories when you join the SPO in a holiday concert of festive music, old and new, from Europe, the US and Canada. Featuring music by Brahms, Sibelius, John Williams, and more.  Program includes: 

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite

John Williams:  Somewhere in My Memory, from Home Alone

FAMILY STORIES

FEB 10 @ 7:30 pm

St. Paul L’Amoreaux Church

Featuring: Winds of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Ted Runcie, Conductor

*Ted Runcie : An Anansi Odyssey, for Woodwind Quintet and Narrator (Premiere)

*Bruno Degazio: The Inner Treasure, from Three Tales of Rabbi Nachman, for Woodwind Quintet and Narrator (Premiere)

*Lauren Greenberg:  Peculiar Procession, for Woodwind Quintet (Premiere)

Franz Schubert: Octet for Winds in F Major, for Wind Octet

Scott Joplin (arr. Robert G. Patterson) – Easy Winners from Ragtime Serenade, for Wind Octet 

BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS

APRIL 6 @ 7:30 pm 

Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel

Featuring: SPO, Ronald Royer, Conductor, Tiffany Yeung, Violin

The power, drama and beauty of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 meets the lush romanticism of the Brahms Violin Concerto in this memorable concert. Be there when rising star, Tiffany Yeung, dazzles us with her violin virtuosity.

Brahms: Violin Concerto, in D Major

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 4, in B-Flat Major

SONGS OF HOPE

APRIL 27 @ 7:30 pm

St. Paul L’Amoreaux

Featuring: Danielle MacMillan, Mezzo Soprano; Maghan McPhee, Soprano; Odin Quartet; Kaye Royer, Clarinet; Gilles Thibodeau, Horn; Lisa Tahara, Piano, Ronald Royer, Conductor

Highlighting this concert of popular opera arias and chamber music will be the premiere of a song cycle for soprano, mezzo and chamber ensemble composed by diverse Canadian composers unified in answering our challenging times with one word “Hope”.

Besides music by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod, and Delibes, we will be premiere songs by: Ronald Royer, Ted Runcie, Rachel McFarlane, Bruno Degazio, Daniel Mehdizadeh, Leela Gilday, Shreya Jha, and Kye Marshall. 

LET THERE BE LISZT!

MAY 11 @ 7:30 pm

Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel

Featuring: SPO, Ronald Royer, Conductor, Vanessa Yu, Piano

Beginning with Ted Runcie’s new overture celebrating life on the banks of the St. Lawrence followed by rising star, pianist Vanessa Yu performing with the SPO Liszt’s romantic and powerful Concerto No. 1. Then, thrill to the drama of Dvorak’s masterful Symphony No. 6

Ted Runcie:  Laurentian Overture (Premiere)

Liszt: Concerto No. 1, in E-flat major

Dvorak: Symphony No. 6, in D Major, Op. 60