Angela Birdsell WSO

10/07/2024

11/29/2023

On August 1, 2018, I walked onstage at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Colorado and played the opening notes of Bach’s cello suites — music that’s been with me my entire life, but was now the start of a new journey: 36 communities on 6 continents over 5 years. The Bach Project was my response to anxiety and division in the world unlike any I had felt before. Bach’s music — with its extraordinary empathy and soaring imagination — is one way that I can invite people to sit together, listen, and share an experience. So in each place, I played these suites as an offering and I asked a simple question: how else is culture helping us imagine and build a better world?

Over the next 36 days, I will share moments from each stop on this journey, an experience that has taught me so much about all that we have in common, and the ways so many are working for a better, more balanced, more sustainable world.
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📷 Ellen Jaskol

02/09/2023

12/13/2022

What a great holiday concert featuring an amazing range of musicians in our community from many traditions. Thank-you Folklorama.

An upcoming performance called “A Celebration of Nations” aims to highlight diversity through music and dance.

12/12/2022

12/11/2022

'Amero Little Christmas' returns to the Burt a year later as Don Amero kicks off the holiday season in only ONE week! 🎊

TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3Ph7Rax

11/30/2022

The WSO has been thrilled to have Naomi on our team - over the moon that she has received this honour.

Congratulations to WSO Assistant Conductor Naomi Woo, who has been awarded the 2022 Virginia Parker Prize!

The Virginia Parker Prize is awarded to a musician, instrumentalist or classical music conductor under the age of 32 who demonstrates outstanding talent, musicianship and artistic excellence and who makes a valuable contribution to artistic life in Canada and internationally.

We are SO PROUD to have such a talented musician on our team. Bravo Naomi!

10/14/2022

ON SALE NOW 🎻

A young man brings his grandfather’s violin to Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein for repair. When Weinstein opens it, he finds black powder inside, soon realizing it is ashes from the crematoria of Auschwitz where the grandfather had last played the instrument.

Amnon and his son, Avshi, begin collecting more Holocaust violins, restoring them and learning from the owners their stories of injustice, suffering, resilience, and survival.

Tickets available via link below.
https://wso.ca/whats-on/b2-violins-of-hope/