Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

As a prequel to the start of its Masterworks series, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra presented An Evening with Renée Fleming on Wednesday at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, a concert greatly anticipated by the Calgary’s classical music community, and which drew a packed house and prolonged applause at the close. - Calgary Herald

Last rehearsal before tonight's Worlds Collide concert with Maestro Rune Bergmann, featuring works by Haydn, Kuzmenko and Vincent Ho's World Premiere of The Sandman’s Domain: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra. https://calgaryphil.com/…/worlds-collid e-haydn-…/2018-09-28/

Meet the new Principal Clarinet of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and find out what lead him down his career path. #MeettheMusician https://calgaryphil.com/meet-the-musician -slavko-popovic/

Who's watching the live-stream with us? Go to calgaryphil.com/livestream and see Renée Fleming's performance with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra!

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Welcome to the orchestra, Kathleen de Caen! Coming to Calgary to play cello with the #CalgaryPhil might have been predetermined for de Caen, find out why on the blog. #MeettheMusicians https://calgaryphil.com/meet-the-musician -kathleen-de-caen/

Join Calgary Foundation for Vital City 2018 on Thursday, 18 October to hear from keynote speaker, Derrick Feldmann, an internationally sought-after speaker, adviser & researcher on cause engagement and social good: vitalcity2018.eventbrite.ca

We've released some floor seats for An Evening with Renée Fleming, pick them up before they're all gone!
Can't make it to the concert hall? Don't worry, the concert will be live-streamed. Tune in! https://calgaryphil.com/renee-fleming/

Congratulations George Romberg for celebrating 35 years as a specialist in Latin America! We appreciate your support in the #CalgaryPhil Raffle each year.

This week at the CPO: Award-winning soprano Renée Fleming returns to Calgary for one of the most highly anticipated concerts of the Season on Wednesday, followed by this Season's first Classical concert featuring music by Haydn, Ho, and Kuzmenko. https://calgaryphil.com/

Instrument Discovery Zoo at Guide to the Orchestra tonight with Village Brewery!

Get the night started with Village Brewery and meet the musicians and their instruments in the lobby for tonight's new and improved introduction to the symphony!
https://calgaryphil.com/eve…/symphonics -101-guide-orchestra/ #InstrumentDiscoveryZoo #Beer #Symphonics #CalgaryPhil

Haydn, Beethoven, Mahler, and Debussy, get acquainted with these incredible composers at tomorrows' Guide to the Orchestra concert. The perfect intro to the Orchestra. #CalgaryPhil #YYC #Music https://calgaryphil.com/eve…/symphonics -101-guide-orchestra/

The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is welcoming eight new musicians for the 2018/2019 Season. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing them to you with our “Meet the Musician” blog series. First up: Cellist Danny Poceta.
https://calgaryphil.com/meet-the-musician -danny-poceta/

Renée Fleming sang David Letterman's Top 10 in 2013. Next week, she sings a few different lyrics with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. #Opera #Classical #YYCMusic #CalgaryPhil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ59lj4Y_ a0

“I often have friends who are not musicians say, ‘Can you put together a playlist for me of classical music? I’d love to explore it but I don’t know where to start.’ ” associate conductor, Karl Hirzer says. “So this program is very much ‘Karl’s Spotify playlist for orchestral music.’ ”

This week at the CPO: Associate Conductor Karl Hirzer shows you the full spectrum of what a live symphonic performance has to offer at Guide to the Orchestra on 21 September. #ThisWeek #CalgaryPhil http://calgaryphil.com/

‪Picture or it didn't happen! Post your best photo from the #AbbeyRoad at tonight's concert, tag @calgaryphil and be entered to win tickets to Worlds Collide: Haydn, Ho + Kuzmenko. #PhotoContest #YYC‬

Ótimo local onde se pode curtir uma boa música associado a grandes espetáculos.

love reading whats happening ,so love classical music ,as my mum and grandmother were classical pianists ,xxx

Valentina Lisitsia controversy: A portion of tax payers dollars are going to support this racist and anti-semitic pianist's performance with the CPO? Really? Can we not expect more for our support of the Arts in Calgary???Valentina Lisitsia's expression of hatred toward Jews, Blacks, the disabled and others is outrageous and does not deserve protection of "freedom of speech" rights! Canadians, as well as Calgarians, should not tolerate such public expressions of hatred and intolerance as has been tweeted by Lisitsia. We don't support that kind of behaviour from our professional athletes, celebrities or politicians. Why is she performing in Calgary? Because the CPO and sponsors did not do their research, perhaps. Exceptional talent does not and should not excuse exceptionally offensive and just plain "bad behaviour". Toronto Symphony Orchesta had the guts to send the right message by cancelling her performance. Michael Buble got the message from social media...hopefully so will the CPO, the Calgary Herald, Nexen, and the rest of the sponsors. Is it too much to expect decent public behaviour from an artist?

Totally loved it....we were pleasantly surprised 👌🏼

The evening was a smashing hit. The vocalists, Patrick Thomas and Rachel Potter were a great team.

The Music of Abba Concert was fantastic. The orchestra is sensational. We can't wait to come back.

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Marvellous performance of the Brahms Requiem - a work I know well from recordings but had never seen performed. Also nice to hear the Bartok first violin concerto - rarely performed, I think. Soloist, conductor and chorus were fantastic!

Love CPO, love the orchestra- outstanding performance all the time!

Last evening's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Mozart's Requiem were, in a word, transcendent!

I was so privileged to attend the 2001 a space odyssey by Stanley Kubrick event at CPO the music was amazing!!!!

I am a huge supporter of the CPO and I am thrilled to be donating one of my original contemporary landscape paintings to this years Cork and Canvas fundraiser. It will be on display at the Winemakers Dinner for those who wish to bid!

Great space, great staff and for the most part, a great variety of shows. As well, the simple fact that CPO runs programs like "CPO Possibilities" for young people between the ages of 14-29 years is an excellent decision. The program offers affordable access to a variety of shows that many would not have checked out if not for this opportunity.

Great performance! I am not a classical music fan, but really enjoyed Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra at Ultimate Country Legends and The music of ABBA. Looking forward to more concerts like this!

Fun, festive night with our amazing orchestra! The vocalists were great! The wonderful music really got me into the spirit ÔøΩLove hearing #gavinhope sing.

Fabulous... as always!! Keep up your joy and sharing of music!!

Definitely going to go on a regular basis from now on!!

Class and style!! Amazing orchestra ! Music is fascinating! Can't wait for another quality Saturday at CPO!!

Cirque musica a great show and beautiful music from the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Will definately go again.

An all around excellent experience. The pianist, particularly, was amazing to watch. I look forward to coming again soon!

Amazing performance by all! The four singers really pushed it over the top! Absolutely incredible! I love Disney and the Thanksgiving Disney show was more than I could have hoped for! Will definitely be going again in the future!

Always a treat to spend a night out with the CPO....looking forward to the season ahead.

Always a great time! Such a talented crew and we're lucky to have the CPO in our city :)

Always a great time at the symphony. The rush hour performances are some of my favorites as you can go for a leisurely dinner afterwards.

A performance that raised my heart beat and took my breath away!

It was a fantastic concert. The conductor was incredible at bringing the musicians together.

I went to the CPO's remembrance day tribute, Afghanistan: A requiem of a generation. As a veteran I loved the showed!! It was amazing and as my first-time to the CPO it was a great introduction to the orchestra. I will definitely be looking out for other shows the CPO puts on in the future.

Went to the David Bowie tribute the other day. As a disclaimer, what I heard from the cpo was great. My understanding on buying the tickets were that it would be cpo doing David Bowie which would have been fantastic as he has been gone by orchestra's many times before. As a huge Bowie fan the group that fronted were pretty good and the girl singer was fantastic. The biggest issue was having the whole band in the front of the stage. We were 10 row left right in front of the drummer. This drowned out everything. Thus my rating of 3

I was confused by the setting. I was expecting to see the CPO perform sound tracks from the movie. However, what happened was that the whole movie was shown. I bet most of the audience would forget that the CPO was playing at times. When the movie ended, many left ignoring the fact that they were still performing.

I expected to see the Calgary philharmonic orchestra play all the tunes from The movie, LaLa Land. However, I got to see the movie for the second time last night at The Jack Singer Concert Hall. While this is one of my favourite films, I went to hear the CPO and was subjected to the songs played throughout the movie on screen. I don't understand why there was a huge contingency of performers on stage as it appeared that they played very little at all. I expected a grand piano In The Centre of the stage and a pianist accompanying the orchestra. This was not so and I, along with my two other companions were very disappointed with the outcome. I'm being generous by rating this performance with 3 out of 5.

Very disappointed! This was our second year attending the father daughter ball. Last year the food was horrible and this year it was held at a new venue due to poor food. The deep fryer went down so needless to say my 3yr and 6yr never got to "eat dinner" they finally brought a plate of chicken fingers that weren't cooked at 8pm!

I spoke to Jessica as well as Clare on my feelings about this. I was told by Jessica that they weren't going to do anything for us as it was the venues problem. I was told the venue would mail out a $100 voucher but I have yet to see it. Just found out it was mailed May 6th and its the 21st and I had to follow up again.

This years father daughter ball was in April and I am still dealing with this.

It makes me sad when I know how much I paid and I feel as a customer I shouldn't have to chase the management down about a problem. I believe if you purchase tickets through CPO that they should rectify any problems and deal with them in a timely manner. Not brush it off cause it's the venues fryer that went down. I am not the venues client. I am a disappointed CPO customer who can't get a straight answer!!!