Industry News November/December 2025
Appointments Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec have announced news that Bernard Labadie will assume the music directorship of the orchestra starting…
Browsing: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 2025/26 Season: A Celebration of Canadian Artistry
Toronto, April 10, 2025 — The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) proudly announces its 2025/26 season — an ambitious, blockbuster year of iconic masterworks, monumental collaborations,…
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Announces Its Return From Bankruptcy
KITCHENER, ONTARIO, October 30, 2024 – The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) is pleased to announce that it will continue its almost eighty-year legacy, despite declaring bankruptcy…
Highlights | Oldest Recording Pianist Dies at 109, Klein Competition Applications Open
From Colette Maze, the, oldest pianist in the world to Claude Kahn, the founder of an international music competition that’s over 50 years old, the classical music world has lost many influential performers, composers, and teachers this week.
KWS Artist Profiles: Kendra Grittani, cellist
When she heard Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony had canceled their 2023-2024 season just 48 hours before it was set to begin, cellist Kendra Grittani felt a deluge of emotions.
KWS Artist Profiles: Allene Chomyn and Ian Whitman
The love story of Allene Chomyn and Ian Whitman, who joined the KWS in the orchestra’s 2007-08 season, seems right out of a storybook.
Newswire | Emanuel Ax Benefit Concert for Musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Sells Out
In a philanthropic gesture to support the Musicians of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Emanuel Ax has offered to perform a rare benefit concert on November 1, 2023.
Industry News (October 2023)
Obituaries American heldentenor Stephen Gould has died of cancer at the age of 61. Gould’s international career spanned performances of works by Wagner, Britten,…
Fall Highlights: Youth
Jeunesses Musicales Canada Jeunesses Musicales Canada is back with another action-packed season of programming for a wide variety of ages. The holiday season kicks off…
KWS AGM Celebrates Season of Success, Looks Ahead to Future
November 19th, 2021, Kitchener, ON – The Annual General Meeting of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony was held yesterday afternoon, November 18th, 2021, virtually over Zoom. The…
