Arts & Culture

After four seasons with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, RBC Assistant Conductor Naomi Woo is set to leave and take on new musical challenges and opportunities elsewhere. 

“Inspirational” is how Woo describes her time in the city.  

The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra wraps up their 50th anniversary season with a concert-staging of Handel’s opera Alcina. MCO Music Director Anne Manson in collaboration with Geneviève Pelletier, artistic and executive director of Théâtre Cercle Molière, transport audiences to an enchanted isle where the sorceress Alcina has spellbound the knight Ruggiero. 

The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra closes out their 50th anniversary season with a concert staging of Handel’s opera Alcina – an MCO first!  

In collaboration with director Geneviève Pelletier, MCO Music Director Anne Manson and company plan to bring a theatrical flair to this semi-staged performance. 

Featuring world-class coloratura sopranos Tracy Dahl and Andriana Chuchman, joined by the outstanding mezzo soprano Lizzy Hoyt, the amazing contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay, plus exciting tenor Nolan Keyler – this is not a production to be missed.  

Get ready to “Groove Together,” Winnipeg. 

That's the theme to this year’s TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival and audiences will have plenty of opportunity to do exactly that.  

A member of the renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1994, the Canadian-born violinist has established herself as a versatile and accomplished soloist and chamber musician in addition to her distinguished orchestral career – which includes a stint with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra!  

Catherine returns to the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival – 22 years after first performing – in a variety of programs and concerts.  

Learn more about her career and the music she will be performing with Agassiz by watching the full interview below!  

Guitarist Daniel Bolshoy is a well-travelled concert soloist, recitalist, and avid chamber musician committed to the proselytization of his instrument. A Senior Lecturer in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia where he directs the guitar program, Bolshoy brings his undeniable talent to the outstanding roster of Agassiz Chamber Music Festival artists this year.  

No stranger to Winnipeg audiences, Bolshoy has previously performed in town with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg and Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society.  

Starting tonight and going through to Friday June 9th, the Royal Winnipeg’s Ballet’s Anna McCowan-Johnson Aspirant Program will be showcasing their talents in a program that they call “On the Edge.”

John Novacek is a versatile, GRAMMY-nominated pianist who has performed across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. A lauded recitalist and in-demand soloist, he’s been heard on some of the grandest stages with the greatest of orchestras, live, over the radio, on TV and online.