Kindred Spirits Orchestra

06/06/2026

LAVAZZA INCLUCITY FESTIVAL
presented by Rogers

Toronto’s fav outdoor film fest is back!

🎬 From June 25 to July 19, The Lavazza IncluCity Festival, presented by Rogers, transforms the Distillery Historic District into a dreamy cinema village. Tickets include films, food, drinks, concerts, AI art exhibit access & more! All from your favourite outdoor couches 🎟️



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05/07/2026

Many thanks to the Ontario Government and the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario for their support of the KSO 2025-2026 concert season.

Billy Pang

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Alice Ping Yee Ho’s Concerto for piano and orchestra is subtitled “Pictures from an Imagined Exhibition” (a nod to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition) and is inspired by paintings by contemporary artists Wesley Tongson and Christina Petrowska Quilico, who also performs the world première as the soloist.

Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, the final symphony he completed, is one of the great monuments of the symphonic repertoire. It opens in an atmosphere of extraordinary stillness and mystery—so profound that the music theorist Heinrich Schenker described it as “like the beginning of the world”—before unfolding into vast, sweeping musical landscapes of immense power and scale. In its final movement, Bruckner brings the entire symphony together in a remarkable way, recalling and transforming themes from earlier movements. The result is a deeply cohesive and deeply moving journey, culminating in one of the most powerful conclusions in all of orchestral music.

Kristian Alexanderr | conductor
Christina Petrowska Quilico | pianist
Mark Wigmore | host (Classical 96.3 FM)

7:10 p.m. Prélude: pre-concert recital.
7:20 p.m. Pre-concert talk.

Intermission discussion and Q&A with Christina Petrowska Quilico and Mark Wigmore.

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04/05/2026

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03/27/2026

03/24/2026

ARCHITECTURE AND CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 8 p.m.
Cornell Recital Hall
3201 Bur Oak Ave, Markham

Karl Jenkin’s Palladio takes inspiration from the eponymous sixteenth-century architect Andrea Palladio. Jenkins himself notes that “Two of Palladio’s hallmarks are mathematical harmony and architectural elements borrowed from classical antiquity,” and Jenkins himself structures the music based on similar mathematic proportions.

Inspired by the famous Brandenburg Concertos, the Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks) was the last piece that Stravinsky wrote before emigrating to America in 1939. The piece inspires the idea of a musical conversation, with each of the instruments appearing as its own character.

The concert concludes with Britten’s Variations of a theme by Frank Bridge, a set of ten variations written as a tribute to Britten’s teacher; each theme is intended to represent one aspect of Bridge’s personality.

Jenkins, Palladio concerto grosso for strings
Stravinsky, Concerto in Es “Dumbarton Oaks”
Britten, Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge

Kristian Alexander | conductor
Andrew James Clark | host

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