Concerts

Join the DVO in the opening concert of our 2026-27 season! We will be partnering with the Bruce Trail Conservancy for a concert celebrating nature. The concert will include music by Smetana, Vivaldi, Delius, and Leroy Anderson. DVO Concertmaster Naomi Dore Brown will be a featured soloist.

Programme:

1. Laura Thomas: On The Trail: Queenston to Tobermory
2. Frederick Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
3. Robert McMullin: Prairie Sketches
4. Leroy Anderson: Summer Skies
5. George Frideric Handel: Ombra Mai Fu
6. Peter DeRose: Autumn Serenade
7. Mindaugas Piecaidis: Catcerto
8. Antonio Vivaldi: Winter, 1st mvt. (from The Seasons)
9. Bedřich Smetana: Die Moldau (from Má vlast)

The concert will be held at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets) in Dundas. There will be a reception following the concert.

Admission to our concert is free, but we need your support. Donations are always welcome and deeply appreciated. Give $10 or more and a charitable donation tax receipt will be provided.

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

The DVO presents our Nancy Cassels Chamber Music Concert with an eclectic mix of music from the Celtic highlands, Parisian salons, and the palaces of Vienna. Music by Mendelssohn, Mozart and others performed by DVO musicians, our Salon Orchestra, and Celtic Cadence.

The DVO and the Grand River Chorus combine forces to present a concert of music celebrating Black history and culture. The featured work will be John Rutter’s “Feel the Spirit”, a cycle of seven spirituals for choir and orchestra. The program will also include music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Nathaniel Dett.

In honour of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, the DVO will present a concert celebrating the legacy of one the most influential and pivotal composers in the history of Western music. The program will feature music inspired by Beethoven by Canadian composer Larysa Kuzmenko, the DVO trombone quartet performing music by Beethoven, and the great “Eroica” Symphony #3.