Celebrity Series

Under Maestro Bernhard Gueller, our orchestra welcomes internationally acclaimed guest artists to perform some of the greatest classical music ever written.

Our free pre-concert chats give you inside information about the evening's performance. Join us at 6:45 pm in the Sculpture Court, just outside the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thursday, October 8, 2009
On the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth, his complete A Midsummer Night's Dream comes to life... [more]

Brushstrokes and Bows
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Hear sound become colour with violinist Robert Uchida and music by Respighi, Schubert, and Andrew P. MacDonald... [more]

Mozart by Kuerti
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Pianist extraordinaire Anton Kuerti returns to Symphony Nova Scotia to perform Mozart... [more]

Death and the Maiden
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Currently the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta brings her concertmaster Michael Ludwig to Nova Scotia... [more]

Janina's Chopin to Beethoven's Eighth
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth with Symphony Nova Scotia and pianist Janina Fialkowska... [more]

Left-Handed Concerto
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Prokofiev wrote the virtuosic Concerto no. 4 for Left Hand for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm... [more]

Strauss and Suzanne
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Symphony Nova Scotia's principal oboist Suzanne Lemieux takes on Strauss' sensitive and beautifully melodic Oboe Concerto... [more]

Dvorak Festival: THE Cello Concerto
Thursday, April 29, 2010
It's the world’s finest cello concerto – "THE cello concerto," says Maestro Gueller – and one of the most beautiful works ever written... [more]

Dvorak Festival: From the New World
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Truly multinational, epic in scope, and proud in spirit, the New World Symphony is one of Dvorak’s most eternally cherished works... [more]

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