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Centuries of Dance – Sunday, February 16, 2025

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Music and dance have always been performed together and the DVO is going to celebrate this artistic mixture—from polka to celtic, rock to tango! Hear The Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Polovetsian Dances, Crocodile Rock and Sabre Dance. Special guests: the DVO Celtic Ensemble, a chamber group from our Chamber Ensembles Program.

Pay what you like. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please remember that St. Paul’s is a fragrance-free facility.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

From The New World – Sunday, May 25, 2025

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Dvořák’s popular Symphony no. 9, “From the New World”, is the inspiration for this concert focusing on music from the Americas. Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man will showcase the DVO Brass and Percussion sections. The DVO will also present Kauyumari by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, as well as the winning composition from our 2025 Student Composer Competition. Talented young pianist, Victoria Zeng, our 2023 DVO-HAALSA Young Musician award winner, will perform the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Peace – Sunday, June 22

7pm at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, 9280 Airport Rd., Mount Hope

The DVO and Chorus Hamilton will join forces again to present a peace themed concert at the Warplane Heritage Museum. The concert will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace), written and first performed in 1936 as Europe reflected on the horrors of the First World War and feared the possibility of a second. The perform- ance will take place in the main hangar of the museum, surrounded by historical airplanes and educational exhibits. This special event is sup- ported by the incite Foundation.

PAST CONCERTS

Concerts of the 2024-2025 Season

The Dundas Valley Orchestra presents: the Nancy Cassals Christmas Chamber Music Concert – Sunday, November 24, 2024

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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The DVO is excited to present its first Nancy Cassals Christmas chamber music concert! Nancy Cassals has been a pillar of the music community in Dundas for many years, and the DVO is pleased to be continuing the tradition she began in Dundas many years ago. Forty years ago, Nancy organised a popular chamber music concert at Christmastime and continued to do so every year since. With her retirement from this wonderful tradition, the DVO is continuing this yearly concert in her name as a tribute to such a wonderful musician and supporter of music in Dundas. Thank you, Nancy!

These yearly concerts, separate from the DVO regular orchestral season, showcase small groups of the musicians of the orchestra such as string quartets, trios, and groups like the Celtic and brass ensembles. Don’t miss this exciting new holiday tradition of the Dundas Valley Orchestra!

Programme:

Beethoven String Quartet Op 18 No. 4 movements I and II
Celtic Ensemble
Faure Piano Trio Movement I
Brass ensemble playing Christmas music at intermission
Mozart Gran Partita Serenade

Pay what you like. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please remember that St. Paul’s is a fragrance-free facility.

Sight, Sound, Symphony! – Sunday, November 3, 2024

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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In partnership with The Dundas Valley School of the Arts
Sandee Ewasiuk, Guest Artist
Pre-concert Program for young people with Keira McArthur

Programme:

Aaron Copland: Rodeo
- Hoe Down
Heitor Villa-Lobos, arr. Eliseu Ferreira: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
- Toccato (The Little Train of the Caipira)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, op. 68
- IV – Gewitter, Sturm
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Künstlerleben (“An Artist’s Life”), op. 316 (Sandee Ewasiuk, Live Art Artist)
J. W. Bratton, J. Kennedy, arr. L. Thomas: The Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Live art encore)
Modeste Mussorgsky, orchestration by Carl Simpson: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Part One: I – Promenade
- Part Four: XIII – Catacombs
- Part Three: IX – Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
- Part Five: XVI – The Great Gate at Kiev
Gabriel Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques, op. 112
- III – Gavotte
Emmanuel Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche

The DVO and the DVSA team up to present a performance for the eyes and the ears! Music by Copland, Beethoven, Mussorgsky and others will demonstrate the imaginative visual aspects of music. Sandee Ewasiuk will paint during the performance, accompanied by the orchestra. The audience will then be invited to do the same. This concert has been planned to be very accessible to young people and kids of all ages and is supported by the Dougher Community Fund.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more. DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please remember that St. Paul’s is a fragrance-free facility.

Concerts of the 2023-2024 Season

Symphonic Spotlight

Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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Enjoy a concert that will spotlight many of the DVO’s wonderful musicians including clarinetist Michael Westwood on Spohr’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1. We will also present our Student Composer Competition winning piece and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4.

Featuring:

Michael Westwood, clarinet
Christiaan VanZyl, composer

Programme:

Carl Maria von Weber: Overture and Act II March for Turandot, op. 37
Christiaan VanZyl: Scenes from the Summit (Premiere performance, DVO Student Composer Competition 2024 winner)
Louis Spohr: Clarinet concerto no. 1, op. 26 (Michael Westwood, clarinet)
1. Adagio — Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Rondo (Vivace)
Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 4 in d minor, op. 120
1. Andante con moto — Allegro di molto
2. Romanza: Andante
3. Scherzo: Presto
4. Largo — Finale: Allegro vivace

Romance and Adventure

Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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The DVO celebrates memorable movie music with romantic themes and rollicking adventure. Soprano soloist Callista Foti will be featured in this concert highlighting music from great westerns, musicals, romantic films and adventures like Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean. We will also present this year’s HAALSA Student Soloist, cellist Nirvaan Grewal who will perform F. J. Haydn’s Concerto in C Major for cello.

Featuring:

Callista Foti, soprano
Nirvaan Grewal, cello (HAALSA Student Soloist)

Programme:

Loewe & Lerner: My Fair Lady - Selections for Orchestra
Menken: Beauty and the Beast (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
Jones & Kahn: It Had To Be You (Callista Foti, soprano)
Schifrin: Mission: Impossible Theme
Haydn: ((Concerto in C Major)) (Nirvaan Grewal, ‘cello)
Great Themes from Great Western Movies
Doyle & Williams: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
You’ve Got a Friend in Me
Bernstein & Sondheim: West Side Story - Selections for Orchestra
Styne & Merrill: Don’t Rain on My Parade (Callista Foti, soprano)
Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean

Requiem

Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

The DVO joins with Chorus Hamilton and its Artistic Director David Holler, St. Paul’s Minister of Music Fredric Devries, soprano Ariel Harwood Jones, baritone Adam Kuiack and the Dundas Pipes and Drums for a Remembrance Day weekend performance of Fauré’s Requiem and other moving selections. Supported by the Dougher Community Fund.

Ariel Harwood-Jones, soprano
Adam Kuiack, baritone
Fredric DeVries, organ
Chorus Hamilton; David Holler, Artistic Director
Dundas Pipes and Drums

Programme:

William Robb: When the Battle’s O’er
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, second movement
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
1. Introit et Kyrie
2. Offertory
3. Sanctus
4. Pie Jesu
5. Agnus Dei
6. Libera me
7. In Paradisum
John Newton, arr. L. Thomas: Amazing Grace
Ulrich Roever & Michael Korb: Highland Cathedral

Concerts of the 2022-2023 Season

Swing into Spring!

Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Ross Wooldridge, clarinet
Serena Paton, vocal
Doug Mundy, piano
Clark Johnston, bass
Kevin Dempsey, drums

Our long-awaited concert featuring music of the big bands is back! The DVO will present a concert of music from the big band era — toe-tapping swing, nostalgic ballads, beautiful melodies and infectious rhythms. Guest clarinetist, Ross Wooldridge, and guest vocalist, Sarena Paton, will join us to pay tribute to the dynamic soloists of the day.

Complete Program (PDF)

Programme:

arr. Calvin Custer: A Salute to the Big Bands
- April in Paris • I’m Getting Sentimental Over You • Pennsylvania 6-5000 • Serenade in Blue • Sing Sing Sing
William Bradley, arr. Laura Thomas: Bopsickle - (soloist Steve Burditt, trombone)
Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, arr. James D. Ployhar: Caravan - (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin, arr. T. Vosbein: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
Will Hudson: Moonglow - (soloists Ross Wooldridge, clarinet and Doug Mundy, piano)
Cole Porter: Begin the Beguine - (soloist Ross Wooldridge, clarinet)
Alberto Domínguez Borrás: Frenesi - (soloist Ross Wooldridge, clarinet)
Consuelo Velazquez, Sunny Skylar: Besame Mucho - (soloist Sarena Paton, vocal)
arr. Mike Lewis: Moondust
- Moonlight Serenade • Blue Moon • How High the Moon
Harry Warren, Mack Gordon arr. Bob Cerulli: Chattanooga Choo Choo - (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
Cole Porter: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To - (soloist Sarena Paton, vocal)
Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc: Big Noise from Winnetka - (soloists Clark Johnston, bass and Kevin Dempsey, drums)
Gordon Jenkins, arr. Warren Stirtzinger: Goodbye - (soloist Ross Wooldridge, clarinet)
arr. Laura Thomas: Benny’s Tunes - (soloists Ross Wooldridge, clarinet and Doug Mundy, piano)
arr. Calvin Custer: Duke Ellington Medley
- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore • Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me • Sophisticated Lady • It Don’t Mean A Thing

Travelling again

Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

The DVO will take you on a musical journey in a travelogue concert featuring music from popular vacation destinations — a voyage through melodies as we start to travel again after the pandemic. Music from Canada, Ireland, Germany, South America, France and England.

HAALSA Young Musician Award winner: Gabriel Klassen, baritone

Ludwig van Beethoven: Twelve German Dances, WoO 8
- No. 1 in C major
- No. 9 in F major
- No. 10 in D major
- No. 11 in G major
- No. 12 in C major
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
Donald Coakley: Bonavist’ Harbour
Paul Creston: Night in Mexico (Larry Allen, Associate Conductor)
Steven Verhelst: Song for Japan (DVO Trombone Trio ~ Dan Grieve, John Stockton, Steven Burditt)
Jean-Paul-Égide Martini: Plaisir d’amour (Text by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Orchestrated by Hector Berlioz) (Gabriel Klassen, baritone)
George Frideric Handel: Si tra i ceppi from “Berenice”, Act II (Gabriel Klassen, baritone)
Intermission
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry: Symphony #3 in C, (“The English”)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

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A Costume Party for Kids of All Ages

Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Join the Dundas Valley Orchestra in a Halloween Costume Party, complete with a costume parade, prizes and special guest performers from the Hamilton Suzuki School of Music. The DVO will perform popular music for the season from film and stage – spooky and exciting music by Gounod, Badelt and Saint-Saëns with some of your favourite characters from Harry Potter, Star Wars and more!

Complete Programme (PDF)

Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
John Williams, arr. Michael Story: Highlights from Harry Potter
Howard Shore, arr. Bob Cerulli: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Paul F. Webster & Bob Harris, arr. John Moss: Spiderman (TV Theme)
Niccolò Paganini, arr. Shinichi Suzuki: Witches’ Dance: Theme (Hamilton Suzuki School of Music violin students)
Klaus Badelt, arr. Ted Ricketts: Pirates of the Caribbean
Camille Saint-Saëns: Dance macabre (Naomi Doré Brown, violin) (video starts at 52:14)
John Williams, arr. Charles Sayre: Star Wars: March
Robert McBride: Pumpkin Eater’s Little Fugue

Supported by the Dougher Community Fund.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Concert in the Park

Sunday, June 26, 2022

E. Coates: The Dam Busters March
Summer Skies
Pink Panther
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Edward Elgar: Nimrod (from “Enigma Variations”)
Strollin’ (strings only - no other parts)
Skybirds
Big Band Medley
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Summertime in Venice
Meditations by the Sea

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area.

Concerts of the 2021-2022 Season

The Heroes Among Us

Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 7pm at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, 9280 Airport Rd., Mount Hope

🎟 Purchase concert tickets: $15 each or four for $50. Tickets are also available at the door.

Museum doors open at 5pm for concert attendees to enjoy the museum exhibits. The Museum currently requires that visitors wear masks.

DVO Concert Program:

L. v. Beethoven: Symphony #3, 1st mvt.
R. Rodgers: Victory at Sea
E. Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe
E. Coates: The Dam Busters March

Joint Finales with Burlington Concert Band:

J. Williams, arr. S. Hewis: March from 1941
G. Holst: Jupiter

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area.

Concert poster

Celebrating Friends

Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

DVO Concert - April 3, 2022 from St Pauls Dundas on Vimeo.

⚠️ COVID protocols at our concert on April 3 at St. Paul’s: You are required to be fully vaccinated and to wear a mask when you attend the concert. We will have seating areas available for social distancing.

M. Lysenko, arr. L. Thomas: Prayer of Ukraine
A. Dvořák: Festival March
S. Romberg, arr. L. Thomas: Highlights from “The Student Prince” (for Peter Hill)
E. Greig: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 (for Molly Ann Schwarcz)
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs (from “The Nutcracker”) (for Jenny Kyle)
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Sérénade méancholique (Alex Matwijiw, violin)
K. Mak: Awakening (winning submission to the DVO Student Composer Competition, 2020)
Kenneth J. Alford: Vesper Hymn

The St. Paul’s United Church website is streaming and recording the concert.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Together Again!

Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Music by Holst, Satie, Pierné, Oswald, Loeillet, Fedrerick the Great, and DVO Composer-in-residence Mark Thomas.

Winds, Brass and Percussion:

arr. Michel Rondeau: Four Baroque Dances
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, arr. L. Thomas: Allegro (from Sonata for Flute and Piano)
Laura Thomas: Fanfare and Fugue
Robert. B. Brown: Tango-tango
J. Frederick Müller: A Little Bit o’ Latin

String Orchestra:

Gustav Holst: St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29 (four movements)
Mark Thomas: There will Never Be Another You (dedicated to the memory of three of our DVO family; Peter Hill, Molly Schwartz and Jenny Kyle)
Gabriel Pierné: Sérénade, Op. 7
Henrique Oswald: Romanza
Fredrick II (The Great): Symphony in G major for Strings (three movements)

The concert was livestreamed.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Concerts of the 2019-2020 Season

Symphonic Traditions!

February 9, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Fredric Devries, organ

HAALSA Student Soloist - Max Chen

A concert of traditional orchestra favourites from Europe and Russia including Schubert’s Symphony #6, Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia and beloved Canadian composer Healy Willan’s Overture to an Unwritten Comedy.

Featuring St. Paul’s United Church Minister of Music Fredric Devries performing with the DVO in Handel’s Organ Concerto, op. 4, no. 5 and Grand Choeur Dialogué by French composer Eugène Gigout.

Also performing will be Max Chen, the winner of our annual student soloist competition, sponsored by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art.

Healey Willan: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto for Trombone and Military Band, 3rd Movement (soloist Max Chen, trombone, 5th annual HAALSA Student Soloist)
Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
G. F. Handel: Organ Concerto Opus 4 no. 5 (soloist Fredric DeVries, organ)
Eugène Gigout: Grand Choeur Dialogué (soloist Fredric DeVries, organ)
Franz Schubert: Symphony #6, D.589, C Major (Little)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The ensemble presents three major public concerts each year and performs at Hamilton retirement homes. Audience members are welcome to meet the musicians at the post-concert reception. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Broadway Spectacular!

November 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Sarena Paton, soprano

Fernando Lima, countertenor

The music of the Great White Way comes to Dundas! Featuring Dundas vocalists Sarena Paton and Fernando Lima, the DVO will perform music from Broadway classics and recent hits. Join the DVO for music from The Sound of Music, The Music Man, West Side Story, Wicked and others.

R. Rodgers, arr. R.R. Bennett: Highlights from The Sound of Music
S. L. Rosenhaus: Highlights from The Sound of Music
R. Rodgers, arr. D. Walker: “Carousel Waltz” from Carousel
F. Wildhorn and N. Knighton: “When I look at You” from The Scarlet Pimpernel (Serna Paton, vocalist)
G. Gershwin, arr. C. Sayre: Selections from Porgy and Bess
L. Thomas: Kinder Concerto (with guest conductor Larry Allen)
M. Willson, arr. M. Issac: Selections from The Music Man
Andersson, Rice, Ulvaeus, arr. O’Loughlin: “Anthem” from Chess (Fernando Lima, vocalist)
Schonberg, C.M., arr B. Lowden: “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables (Fernando Lima, vocalist)
L. Bernstein, arr. J. Mason: “Tonight” from West Side Story (Sarena Paton and Fernando Lima, vocalists)
S. Schwartz, arr. T. Ricketts: Highlights from Wicked
M. Leigh, arr. P. Lang: “I, Don Quixote” from Man of La Mancha

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts of the 2018-2019 Season

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Sunday May 26, 2019 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Otto Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Sergei Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major, opus 19 (soloist: Corey Gemmel, violin)
Y. Okita: Promenade (2019 Student Composer Competition winner)
Laura Thomas: Kinder Concerto
Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Carl Simpson): Pictures at an Exhibition

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

A Jewel in the Valley

Sunday January 27, 2019 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Johann Hummel, arr. Brown: Concertante
Richard Strauß: Serenade in E Flat major, Opus 7 (for woodwinds including horns)
John Burge: Canadian Shield (dedicated to Elizabeth Webster)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Adagio” from the Clarinet Concerto in A (soloist Hannah Thompson, Clarinet, HAALSA Student Soloist Winner)
Giovanni Gabrieli, arr. Leen Tuk: Sonata Pian e Forte Ch175 (DVO Brass)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon Septimi Toni No2 Ch172 (DVO Brass)
Laura Thomas: Synchroma (DVO Percussion & Harp)
Karl Jenkins: Palladio, First movement, Allegretto (DVO Strings)
Robert Smith: The Isle of Calypso (soloist Azriel Ashmore, English Horn)
Emma Lou Diemer: Symphony Antique

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

The Dundas Valley Orchestra at Forty!

Sunday November 4, 2018 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Johann Strauss Jr.: Kaiser-Walzer
Johann Strauss Sr.: Radetzky March
Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Edvard Hagerup Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits with Sarah Traficante, flute
Cécile Chaminade: Concertino for flute with Sarah Traficante, flute
Mark Thomas: Haydn’s Dream

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts 2017-2018 Season

Lands of the Midnight Sun

Sunday May 27, 2018 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

Johan Halvorsen: Entry March of the Boyars, op. 17
Micah Thomas: Einherjar
Carl Nielsen: Symphonic Rhapsody for Orchestra in F major, CNW33
Amy Brandon: Three Portraits for Orchestra (2018 Student Composer Competition winner)
Lars-Erik Larsson: Concertino for Horn, op. 45, No. 5 with Iris Krismanic, horn
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (The Little Russian)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

An Afternoon at the Opera

Sunday January 28, 2018 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

Reception afterwards — meet the musicians.

G. Handel, arr. A. Luck: Largo (from “Xerxes”) with Steve Burditt, Euphonium
Mozart: Smanie implacabili (from “Così fan tutte”) with Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo soprano
G. Puccini: Quando m’en vo (from “La Bohème) with Tessa Victoria Laengert, soprano (HAALSA Soloist-repertoire)
Delibes: Sous le dôme épais (from “Lakmé”) with Tessa Victoria Laengert, soprano and Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo soprano
Offenbach: Barcarolle (from “Tales of Hoffman”) with Jennifer McKillop, soprano and Rebecca Cuddy, mezzo soprano
Saint Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, 1st mvt. with Amelia McNiven Fontana, Violin (DVO—HAALSA Young Musician Award winner)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Fall Fair

Sunday November 12, 2017 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert.

Godfrey Ridout: Fall Fair
Joseph Kosma, arr. A. Reed: Autumn Leaves
Robert McBride: Pumpkin Eaters Little Fugue
Antonio Vivaldi: L’Autumno (from “The Four Seasons”) (Soloist: Suhashini Arulanandam, Violin)
Peter de Rose: Autumn Serenade
Ralph Burns and Woody Herman: Early Autumn
Scott Whittington: City of Waterfalls (World premiere)
Edward Elgar: Nimrod (from “Enigma Variations”)
Thomas Bidgood, arr. L. Thomas: Vimy Ridge March

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts 2016-2017 Season

Happy Birthday Canada

Sunday May 28, 2017 at 3:30 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert.

Arr K. Bray: O Canada and God Save the Queen
T. Versluis: Carillon — Fanfare for Orchestra
J. P. Laurendeau: Land of the Maple March
H. Somers: Little Suite for String Orchestra on Canadian Folk Themes
H. Cable: Newfoundland Sketch
Timo Pehkonen: Shapes of Things to Come (winner of Student Composition Competition)
D. Claman: Hockey Night in Canada
R. McMullin: Prairie Sketches
Arr. L. Thomas: From the Hills of Cape Breton (Soloists: Douglas Miller, Irish flute and Eric Mahar, guitar)
Arr. L. Thomas: Valse Frontenac (Soloists: Douglas Miller, flutes and Eric Mahar, guitar)
Sadie Buck, arr. L. Thomas: Oma Dema (Soloists: Douglas Miller, Native American Flute and Eric Mahar, guitar)
R. Gimby: Canada
Arr. L. Thomas: Happy Birthday Canada

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Movie Classics

Sunday January 29, 2017 at 3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert.

Music connected to your favourite movies, old and new. Including themes from Great Westerns, James Bond, and the Mission. We will also showcase our HAALSA Young Musician of the Year.

R. Strauss: Fanfare to Also Sprach Zarathustra
J. Strauss Jr.: Blue Danube Waltz
E. Morricone, arr. R. Longfield: Gabriel’s Oboe (Soloist: Homer Seywerd, Oboe)
E. Bernstein, arr. C. Sayre: Great Escape March
J.Barry, arr. S. Rosenhaus: Dances with Wolves
M. Bruch: Canzone for ‘cello and orchestra (Soloist: HAALSA Young Musician of the Year Phillip Darley)
Arr. S. Bulla: 007: Through the Years
F. Schubert: Symphony No. 8, D.759, B Minor (Unfinished)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Spotlight Dundas

Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 3:00 pm at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, 59 Sydenham St., Dundas Ontario

Please note change in venue. We will return to St. Paul’s United Church for our next concert, following the completion of renovations.

Reception following concert.

This program features music composed and performed by Dundas residents and soloists! Come and listen and see Dundas talent on display.

A Fanfare for Brass and Percussion by Dundas composer Leen Tuk
Birds Flying Over Dundas Peak by Dundas composer Mark Thomas
Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Mandolins in G, RV532 featuring local guitarists Ross Colborne and Steve Parton
Water from the Well by Peter Lloyd, arr L. Thomas featuring Mary Anne Peters & Babbage Industries of Dundas
Mozart’s Overture to the Magic Flute
An Ordinary Day of Dundas by Dundas resident Seiichi Ariga
R. Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending featuring Dundas violinist, conductor and teacher, Michael Schulte
Mendelssohn’s War March of the Priests from Athalia
The “Toy” Symphony attributed to L. Mozart with special local guest soloist musicians and dignitaries

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

DVO is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The ensemble presents two major public concerts each year and performs at Hamilton retirement homes. Audience members are welcome to meet the musicians at the post-concert reception.

Concerts 2015-2016 Season

Spring Concert

Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church.

Winter warmup featuring music from tropical lands — Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean and more. Come for the Steel Drums!

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Remembering Vimy

Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church.

Music of the First World War! We shall be supporting the work of the Vimy Foundation in building a new, enlarged Education Centre at Vimy, France. Come and listen to the music and sing. We shall be joined by the Dundas Pipes and Drums for this concert.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts 2014-2015 Season

DVO Annual Fundraiser 2015

Sunday, June 7, 2-5pm at The Valley City Manufacturing Co, 64 Hatt Street, Dundas

Live Music - Wine/Beer - Snacks - Silent Auction - Art Exhibition
Entry by Donation (receipts for donations over $10)

Immortal Beloved

Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Turkish March, Op 113
Mark Thomas: About Town (DVO’s resident composer)
Ralph Matesky: Variations on a Theme of Beethoven
Chris Barletta: L’eroe e il Cattivo (winner of Student Composition Competition)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, 1st mvt. Nancy Cassels, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op 68, F major (Pastoral)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

A Celebration of Black History

Sunday, January 25th, 2015 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church.

Notes about the Spirituals sung in the concert — as presented at the concert by Peter Hill.

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony in D, Op. 11 No. 2
S. Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert Op. 77
1. Un sonnet d’amour (3rd mvt.)
2. La tarantelle frétillante (4th mvt.)
S. Joplin/arr. L. Thomas: Elite Syncopations
R. Nathaniel Dett, arr. Lt. Thomas: In the Bottoms Suite
1. Honey (Humouresque)
2. Barcarolle (Morning)
3. Juba (Dance)
R. Nathaniel Dett: Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveller (choir a cappella)
Traditional, arr. L. Thomas: Follow the Drinking Gourd (choir with full orchestra)
Traditional, arr R. Emerson: Wade in the Water (choir with full orchestra)
Traditional, arr. A. Thomas: Keep Your Lamps (choir with small accompaniment)
Traditional, arr. R. Dillworth: Morning Glory (choir with full orchestra)
J. Rutter - Feel the Spirit (choir a cappella)

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts 2013-2014 Season

A concert was held Sunday November 9, 2014 at 2pm for Arts Dundas Weekend

Soirée in the Afternoon

In support of the orchestra
June 8, 2014 from 2-5 pm
At Valley City Manufacturing, 64 Hatt St, Dundas
$35 per person, $20 students, 10 for $250

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We cordially invite you to a Soirée in the Afternoon to support the Dundas Valley Orchestra. On June 8 join us to socialize with other residents of Dundas, Hamilton, and the surrounding area, to meet friends and strangers (and new friends), and to raise your appreciation of the arts.

Our venue is Valley City, a historical manufactury right in the heart of Dundas, provided courtesy of the Crockford family. The Valley City building is one of the original industrial buildings in what was Canada West in the pre confederation 1850’s.

Enjoy:

Wine & Cheese & Beer
Silent Auction
Live Music - Classical, Jazz and—who knows?

For more information contact Dvosecretary@hotmail.com. Tax receipts provided (registered charity 118889476RR0001).

Song and Dance - the Music of Opera and Ballet

Sunday, May 25th, 2014 at 3:00 pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

Reception following concert in basement of church

J. Offenbach - Intermezzo and Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman
A. Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours from La Giaconda
G. Verdi - Nabucco Overture
S. Servida - Winner of the 2nd DVO Composers Competition
P.I. Tchaikovsky - Panorama and Valse from Sleeping Beauty Suite Op. 66a
I.F. Stravinsky - Berceuse and Finale from Firebird Suite (1919) (Score signed by Stravinsky will be on display in the lobby.)
Plus - Music from the Mohawk College Concerto Concert of April 15/14.

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Winter Dreams

Sunday, January 19th, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

The theme of our first concert of the 2013-2014 season is “Winter Dreams.” Musical Director, Laura Thomas, has selected a number of works of a Winter nature. Note that this list is subject to change.

W. A. Mozart

Three German Dances K.605 (Includes “Sleigh Ride” mvt.)

J.W. Palmer

Variations on a Winter Theme (Canadian Composer)

L.M. Thomas

Snowflakes (Canadian Composer)

S. Prokofiev

Troika (from Lte. Kiji Suite)

A. Vivaldi

Winter (from the Four Seasons)

P.I. Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 1 in G minor (nicknamed “Winter Dreams”)

Admission is free. The DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more. Meet the musicians at the post-concert reception. The Dundas Valley Orchestra is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The ensemble presents two major concerts each year and performs at Hamilton retirement homes and other community events. New players, especially string players, are welcome.

Concerts 2012-2013 Season

Concert on Sunday, January at 3:00 p.m.

St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

The proposed theme of our first concert of the 2012-2013 season is “Songs of the People.” Musical Director, Laura Thomas, has selected a number of works of a Folk nature. Note that this list is subject to change. Admission is free. The DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more. Meet the musicians at the post-concert reception.

The Dundas Valley Orchestra is comprised of talented amateur musicians from the Hamilton area. The ensemble presents two major concerts each year and performs at Hamilton retirement homes and other community events. New players, especially string players, are welcome.

Concert on Sunday, May at 3:00 p.m.

St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

For the Spring 2013 Concert Musical Director, Laura Thomas, has proposed a programme based on a student theme called, “Student Days.” We may present a programe of works written by composers in their student days. Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

Concerts 2011-2012 Season

Concert on Sunday, June 3rd 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas

The Dundas Valley Orchestra is tuning up for its end-of-season concert, The Jubilation of Spring.

The event takes place at 3 p.m., June 3, St. Paulís United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas.

Music director Laura Thomas will lead the orchestra in a program featuring music written about and for springtime. The concert will include music by Canadian composer Alice Ho and Robert Schumannís Symphony No. 1. Also on the program will be On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring by Delius, Sibeliusí Spring Song and The Voices of Spring by Johann Strauss, Jr.

Assistant conductor Máté Szigeti will conduct the beautiful Brook Green Suite by Gustav Holst.

The Dundas Valley Orchestra recently performed with many of Mohawk Collegeís talented students at the annual music department Concerto Competition concert. Two of the soloists have been invited to perform again with the DVO on June 3. Violinists Marina Mulligan and Calypso McKnight will play the first movement of Mozartís Concertone for Two Violins. Both young musicians are students of Sonia Vizante.

Admission is free. The DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more. Meet the musicians at the post-concert reception.

To view the article on the HamiltonCommunityNews.com, click there Article

Download a .pdf of the Concert Poster

January 22, 2012 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, Dundas

Let the Dundas Valley Orchestra get your toes tapping in an exciting concert of dance music.

The DVO performs orchestral classics, along with courtly dances by English composer Benjamin Britten.

Also on the afternoon agenda is Latin music and tunes from Lord of the Dance and Henry Mancini’s Pennywhistle Jig, which will showcase DVO’s assistant conductor M·tÈ Szigeti on piccolo. The program will also feature the premiere performance of the new orchestration of Linda’s Waltz by DVO Composer-in residence Mark Thomas.

The Music of Dance is the first performance for the DVO under the baton of new Music director Laura Thomas. A graduate of McMaster and Mohawk, Thomas began her tenure as music director in September.

“I am excited to be working with the Dundas Valley Orchestra and really looking forward to this concert,” she said. “We have something for almost everyone in this programme. It will be my introduction to the audience and I hope to meet many of the DVO’s supporters after the concert.”

Admission is free. DVO gratefully accepts donations, and tax receipts are provided for donations of $10 or more.

To view the article on the HamiltonCommunityNews.com, click there Article