Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins is a composer, conductor and arts administrator living in Toronto, and one of the HPO 21-22 Composer Fellows. Her newest piece Echoing Mendelssohn, created during her time…
“Musical prodigies … are probably no longer so rare; but what this little man can do in extemporizing and playing at sight borders the miraculous, and I could not have believed it possible at so e…
Canadian stage and screen actor and director R. H. Thomson joins the HPO at our Hometown Holidays concert as a narrator on the piece Making Light, written by HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richar…
This winter holiday season, the HPO performs Making Light, a festive composition by HPO Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte with accompanying text by Canadian playwright, librettist a…
Are you about to attend your first live orchestra performance? Here are answers to a few questions you may find yourself wondering from your seat in the concert hall! Symphony, Philharmonic or Orchest…
HPO 20-21 Composer Fellow Arie Verheul van de Ven went through a self-described “instrumental identity crisis” in his youth. He started playing the violin as a young child, learning through the Su…