Cecilia Concerts

05/20/2026

Explore our 2026/27 season, a year of live chamber music shaped by exceptional artists, memorable performances, and inspiring musical partnerships.

This new season features pianists Louis Lortie, Enrico Pace, Jonathan Fournel, Michael Davidman, and our new Musician-in-Residence, Illia Ovcharenko, along with cellists Sung-Won Yang and Christina Mahler, violinists Yolanda Bruno, Julia Wedman, and Jacques Forestier, bass-baritone Marcus Nance, and ensembles including Trio Hélios, Ekmeles Ensemble, Poiesis Quartet, Quatuor Agate, the Viano Quartet, and more.

With returning favourites, major international artists, and important new voices, the season offers a rich range of live music experiences for longtime audiences and first-time concertgoers alike.

🎟️ Concerts start Fall of 2026 at The Stage at St. Andrews in Halifax. Full season subscription packages are now available at ceciliaconcerts.ca

🌟 Season Sponsor – Nice Moves / Red Door Realty
⭐️ Musician-in-Residence Presenting Partner – Lang Optometry & Eyewear

📷 Poiesis Quartet

We are thrilled to bring you a year of live chamber music shaped by exceptional artists and memorable performances. This new season includes concerts featuring pianists Louis Lortie, Enrico Pace, Jonathan Fournel, Michael Davidman, and our new Musician-in-Residence Illia Ovcharenko, as well as celli...

05/16/2026

🎹​ Tonight at 7:30pm, Haligonian pianist Alex Yang, winner of the 2026 Cecilia Concerts Developing Musician Award, ​performs on the Stage at St. Andrews in Halifax with a bold and demanding solo recital.​ His program features Schubert’s “Allegretto in C Minor,” D. 915, Chopin’s complete “24 Preludes,” Op. 28, Beethoven’s “Sonata in C Minor,” Op. 111, and Liszt’s dazzling “Rhapsodie espagnole.”

Alex has earned national and international attention for performances shaped by sensitivity, clarity, and musical insight. A student at the Juilliard Pre-College in New York City, he has received a full fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and School, won first prize in the Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition, and was named the 2026 Debut Atlantic Award for Musical Excellence winner for a second consecutive year.​ Join us for this choose-what-you-pay concert and hear one of Canada’s most exciting young pianists at a major moment in his artistic development.

🗓️ Saturday, May 16, 7:30pm
📍 The Stage at St Andrews, 6036 Coburg Road, Halifax
🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca/pianist-alex-yang

⭐️ Season Sponsor: Nice Moves / Red Door Realty

Winner of the 2026 Cecilia Concerts Developing Musician Award, Halifax pianist Alex Yang brings extraordinary poise, depth, and command to a demanding and wide-ranging solo program. Still only 17, Alex has already earned national and international attention for playing marked by clarity, sensitivity...

05/13/2026

Tonight at 7:30pm, join us for a free concert of music sung in Inuttitut and English. Featuring JUNO Award-winning Inuk soprano Dr. Deantha Edmunds, her daughter, soprano Annabelle Edmunds-Ramsay, and ECMA-winning recording artist and collaborative pianist Jennifer King. The program brings together music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, George Frideric Handel, Carl Wilhelm Fliegel, Sid Dicker, and Deantha Edmunds. You will also hear a recitation of Mi’kmaw poet Rita Joe’s “Poem 14,” set to Nova Scotia composer Sandy Moore’s “Nocturne No. 3.” This special evening offers a rare opportunity to hear an Inuk mother and daughter perform together in Inuttitut, sharing music shaped by language, family, and cultural connection.

🗓️ Wednesday, May 13th • 7:30 PM Halifax Central Library's
📍 Paul O'Regan Hall, 5440 Spring Garden Road
🎟️ Free - More details: ceciliaconcerts.ca/inuit-connections-katingakatigennik
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⭐️ Co-presented with Halifax Public Libraries. Season Sponsor - Nice Moves / Red Door Realty. See less

05/12/2026

🎹 Pianist Alex Yang, winner of the 2026 Cecilia Concerts Developing Musician Award, brings depth​ and command to a powerful solo recital​ this Saturday at 7:30pm in Halifax. His program features Schubert’s “Allegretto in C Minor,” D. 915, Chopin’s complete “24 Preludes,” Op. 28, Beethoven’s “Sonata in C Minor,” Op. 111, and Liszt’s dazzling “Rhapsodie espagnole.”​

Alex​​ h​as earned national and international attention for performances full of sensitivity and musical insight. A student at the Juilliard Pre-College​ in New York City, ​h​e has received a full fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and School, won first prize in the Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition, and was named the 2026 Debut Atlantic Award for Musical Excellence winner for a second consecutive year.

Join us for this choose-what-you-pay concert and hear one of Canada’s most exciting young pianists at a major moment in his artistic development.

🗓️ Saturday, May ​16th 7:30pm
📍 The Stage at St Andrews, 6036 Coburg Road in Halifax
🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca/pianist-alex-yang

⭐️ Season Sponsor: Nice Moves / Red Door Realty

Winner of the 2026 Cecilia Concerts Developing Musician Award, Halifax pianist Alex Yang brings extraordinary poise, depth, and command to a demanding and wide-ranging solo program. Still only 17, Alex has already earned national and international attention for playing marked by clarity, sensitivity...

05/09/2026

🧡 Wednesday at 7:30pm, join us for a free concert of classical vocal music sung in Inuttitut and English, led by JUNO Award-winning Inuk soprano and Member of the Order of Canada, Dr. Deantha Edmunds. The soprano is joined by her 15-year-old daughter, emerging artist Annabelle Edmunds-Ramsay, and by ECMA-winning recording artist and collaborative pianist Jennifer King. The program brings together music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, George Frideric Handel, Carl Wilhelm Fliegel, Sid Dicker, and Deantha Edmunds, along with a brief throat-singing demonstration. This special evening offers a rare opportunity to hear an Inuk mother and daughter perform together in Inuttitut, sharing music shaped by language, family, and cultural connection.

🗓️ Wednesday, May 13th • 7:30 PM

📍 Halifax Central Library's Paul O'Regan Hall, 5440 Spring Garden Road

🎟️ Free - Register at ceciliaconcerts.ca/inuit-connections-katingakatigennik

⭐️ Co-presented with Halifax Public Libraries. Season Sponsor - Nice Moves / Red Door Realty.

Join us for a moving concert of classical vocal music sung in both Inuttitut and English, led by JUNO Award-winning Inuk soprano and Member of the Order of Canada, Dr. Deantha Edmunds. She is joined by her 15-year-old daughter, emerging artist Annabelle Edmunds-Ramsay, whose vocal poise and maturity...

05/09/2026

🎻​ ​Tonight at 7:30​pm in Halifax, our 2025/26 Musician-in-Residence, cellist Bryan Cheng, shares the stage with the prize-winning Balourdet Quartet for his final residency concert of the season.​ The program pairs two towering works for strings: Maurice Ravel’s luminous “String Quartet in F major” and Franz Schubert’s expansive “String Quintet in C major.” Together, they offer a striking journey from the colour and clarity of French Impressionism to the emotional depth of the Viennese Romantic tradition.

With five exceptional string players on stage, this promises to be a memorable close to Bryan Cheng’s residency season​! Tickets are available on our website.

🗓️ Saturday, May 9th 7:30pm
📍 The Stage at St Andrews, 6036 Coburg Road in Halifax
🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca/bryan-cheng-and-balourdet-quartet

⭐️ Presented with the generous support of Musician-in-Residence Presenting Partner – Lang Optometry & Eyewear and with our Season Sponsor​ – Nice Moves / Red Door Realty

05/05/2026

🎻​ The prize-winning Balourdet Quartet joins cellist Bryan Cheng our 2025/26 Musician-in-Residence, this Saturday at 7:30pm in Halifax for an evening of music by Maurice Ravel and Franz Schubert. The program features Ravel’s “String Quartet in F major,” full of colour, energy, and shimmering textures, alongside Schubert’s beloved “String Quintet in C major,” one of the great works of the chamber music repertoire. Cheng and the Balourdet Quartet bring together five exceptional string players for a program rich in warmth and expressive depth. Tickets are available on our website.

🗓️ Saturday, May 9th 7:30pm
📍 The Stage at St Andrews 6036 Coburg Road in Halifax
🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca/bryan-cheng-and-balourdet-quartet

⭐️ Presented with the generous support of Musician-in-Residence Presenting Partner – Lang Optometry & Eyewear and with our Season Sponsor​ – Nice Moves / Red Door Realty

For his final residency concert of the season, our 2025/26 Musician-in-Residence cellist Bryan Cheng, joins the prize-winning Balourdet Quartet—who wowed our Halifax audience just a couple of years ago—for a captivating evening of chamber music that bridges the sensuous sound world of French Imp...

05/03/2026

🎻🎹 Today at 2 PM, ​Symphony Nova Scotia violinist Jennifer Jones joins pianist and series host Jennifer King for a beautiful Sensory-Accessible Concerts program shaped around lullabies, childhood themes, and music of tenderness, care, and connection.​ ​The program includes Amy Beach’s “Berceuse,” Mozart’s Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, II. “Tempo di Menuetto,” Clara Schumann’s “Romance,” William Grant Still’s “Mother and Child,” Debussy’s “Sérénade à la poupée,” and “Baby Mine” from “Dumbo,” with music by Frank Churchill and words by Ned Washington.​ Presented in a sensory-friendly environment, this relaxed afternoon concert offers a welcoming space to listen, settle in, and experience live music in a way that feels most comfortable.

🗓️ Sunday, May 3​rd • 2:00 PM
📍 Halifax Central Library​'s Paul O'Regan Hall, 5440 Spring Garden Road
🎟️ FREE - Register online at ceciliaconcerts.ca/violinist-jennifer-jones

⭐️ The Sensory-Accessible Concerts series is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the J&W Murphy Foundation, the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia, the Harrison McCain Foundation, the Craig Foundation, the Unity for Autism Foundation, the Cecilia Concerts Season Sponsor Nice Moves / Red Door Realty, and our presenting partner the Halifax Public Libraries.

05/02/2026

🪗 A reminder that tonight at 7:30pm, we present Paris-based quartet Beltuner, known for its lively performances and mix of swing manouche, musette, tango, pop, and contemporary jazz. Featuring Viviane Arnoux on accordion and vocals, Pascal Muller on guitar, Bertrand Allaume on bass, and Mathieu Stora on percussion, Beltuner creates music full of rhythm, melody, improvisation, and joy.

🎟️ This free concert is now full, but you can join our waitlist and we will be in touch if seats become available. Link in bio : ceciliaconcerts.ca/beltuner

🎟️ Ce concert gratuit affiche complet, mais vous pouvez vous inscrire à notre liste d’attente. Nous vous contacterons si des places se libèrent: ceciliaconcerts.ca/beltuner

🗓️ Saturday, May 2, 7:30 PM
📍 Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library

⭐️ Co-presented with: Alliance Française Toronto, Alliance Française Halifax, and Halifax Public Libraries. Season Sponsor: Nice Moves / Red Door Realty.

04/28/2026

Saturday, May 9th in Halifax, cellist Bryan Cheng closes his 2025/26 Musician-in-Residence season with a remarkable evening of chamber music alongside ​B​oston's prize-winning Balourdet Quartet, returning to Halifax after their unforgettable debut​ with us three years ago. The program pairs Maurice Ravel’s luminous String Quartet in F major​ with Franz Schubert’s monumental String Quintet in C major, one of the most profound and beloved works in the chamber music repertoire.​ Join us for this exciting concert with one of today’s most exciting cellists and one of the world’s leading young string quartets!

🗓️ Saturday, ​M​ay ​9th 7:30pm
📍 The Stage at St Andrews, 6036 Coburg Road in Halifax
🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca/bryan-cheng-and-balourdet-quartet

⭐️ Presented with the generous support of Musician-in-Residence Presenting Partner – Lang Optometry & Eyewear, and ​with our Season Sponsor: Nice Moves / Red Door Realty

🎬​ Balourdet Quartet​ performing Brahms String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 - Mvt. 4