HAMILTON, ON—On February 27, 2025 at 7:30PM, the HPO is back at The Cotton Factory for a special presentation of Intimate & Immersive: The Five Senses!.
The human body is governed by the experiences and interactions in the world through the senses. Our senses impact how we hear a concert performance or even our visual perception of things around us. We experience the subtle and mysterious dance of our senses without much thought. It is only through the absence of our senses that we feel their value the most and can observe the most radical changes in our human experiences. These sentiments come to life as Music Director, James Kahane conducts this intimate concert experience of Contemporary works embalmed in this theme.
At this concert the HPO is joined by visual artist collective, OPTICKS who create an immersive environment with video and light. The musical program includes works from HPO Composer-in-Residence, Abigail Richardson-Schulte, HPO 24-25 Composer Fellow Tsz Long (Fish) Yu, the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music-winning composer Linda Caitlin Smith, Accordion Soloist Joseph Petric and Violeta Cruz. HPO partner The Cotton Factory, located on 270 Sherman Avenue N in Hamilton, makes the perfect venue for this multidisciplinary concert with immersive light and video schemes from OPTICKS and music from your HPO to explore your five senses through the relationship between music and sound.
On this dynamic performance, Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte says, “I am delighted that my own accordion concerto, Bloom, is on the next I & I concert. This music tells my own story of emerging from deafness as a child, with the soloist acting as the individual and the string orchestra as the environment. We have a brand-new work, The Breath of Spring, from our Composer Fellow Fish Yu. As a newcomer to Toronto, Fish wrote of the experience of being in the city as winter thawed to spring, supplementing the orchestral palette with electronics. Linda Catlin Smith’s Goldleaf is a striking study in colour and texture with the percussion adding the shimmer of goldleaf. This program also features Joseph Petric as accordion soloist. Plus, our new Music Director James Kahane, brings a work he knows well: Vire Vole, from Columbian composer Violeta Cruz.”
Tickets to the next Intimate and Immersive concert experience in 2025 are general admission at $40. To learn more about this concert or purchase tickets, visit HPO.org.
Christopher Butler
Marketing and Communications Manager
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
289.216.8305 | cbutler@hpo.org