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Do you have your tickets to the 2014-15 Season finale? Here are 10 reasons you should attend James Sommerville in Concert this Saturday. If you already have your tickets, then here are 10 reasons you …

Program Notes – James Sommerville in Concert May 23, 2015 Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major,K. 495 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791 in V…

Composing a piece of music is much more effort than a lot of people give credit for, but it’s extremely rewarding. HPO Composer-in-Residence, Abigail Richard-Schulte knows this. Her most recent pie…

Contemporary music isn’t just new music. It’s music that is unrestricted and creative. The exploration and initiation of creating music in a way that encompasses cultural and personal ideolo…

In the 1940s and ‘50s, Canadian composers recognized a need for the creation, promotion and organization of Canadian music. From that, the Canadian League of Composers, the Canada Council for the …

By HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte Today’s “contemporary classical” or “new” music can be anything, a result of hundreds of years of change in music composition. For muc…