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New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer turns the rich and haunting sounds of a dead forest into the “harmonic ground” for her new piece titled fire break, commissioned by the HPO.  fire brea…

By Daniel Sheridan Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) is one of the most enduring and influential works of cultural criticism of the last 45 years. In it, he advances the argument that Western depicti…

By: Abigail Richardson-Schulte HPO Composer-in-Residence As a kid, I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I would read them backward and forwards to find all imaginable endings. For Rimsky’s K…

By Daniel Sheridan When one considers the gap between Tchaikovsky’s enduring popularity with concert audiences and the struggles for critical respectability his work has endured during his lifetime …

The annual HPO Composer Festival returns! This year we celebrate and honour the incomparable Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with several talks and performances in the community, as well as our Mainstage per…

As the year (and decade) comes to an end, the HPO is looking back on our significant moments of 2019! This calendar year has been a busy one with the latter half of a spectacular 18-19 Season and the …