Since its founding 50 years ago, the peerless Kronos Quartet has revolutionized what a string quartet can be. Through collaborations with musicians and composers across the globe, robust commissioning initiatives, pace-setting educational programs, and just plain stellar musicianship, Kronos has made concert music relevant and responsive to the people and issues of our time.

Kronos Quartet

Cal Performances

After stays in Hollywood, Armenia, and everywhere between, “Canada’s true renaissance man” (Ottawa Sun) Braid arrives triumphantly to MCO’s stages with rock-star composers Reich, Lizée, Montgomery, and Dessner. 

Sojourn

Crescent Arts Centre

Be afraid, be very, very afraid for the first annual TAC-O-WEEN SpecTACular! Come and experience the electrifying music of our esteemed TAC Faculty and participate in a spooky costume contest. Come for the horror, stay for the music and prizes!

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TACula: A TAC-O-WEEN SpecTACular

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

First Prize and Audience Award winner at the 2002 Geneva International Music Competition, Aiyun Huang enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber musician, researcher, teacher, and producer. Her recent performance highlights include engagements with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, St. Lawrence String Quartet, and Aventa Ensemble. She has collaborated on new works with composers Roland Auzet, David Bithell, Vivian Fung, and Nicole Lizée. An expert in percussion theater, her work on the subject has been published in the Cambridge Companion to Percussion and the video project Save Percussion Theater. She currently serves on the faculty of the University of Toronto. Her program features music for percussion and live electronics. 

Aiyun Huang, percussion

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Featuring the recorded voices of Mahalia Jackson and Studs Terkel.

PPU Pittsburgh Playhouse

Reserve your seats today and enjoy unbeatable savings by subscribing to New World Symphony’s Sounds of the Times series. Starting at just $8 a concert, our 2023-24 series blends music and mixology. Enjoy specialty cocktails paired with works by Gyorgi Lygeti, Nicole Lizée and Jennifer Higdon.

8-bit Noir

New World Center

Feel the beat with an evening of pulsing music led by Conductor Naomi Woo. Haydn’s “Drumroll” Symphony kicks things off on a thrilling note, alongside Ravel’s iconic Boléro with driving snare drum and one of the most unforgettable climaxes in classical music. Performed at the BBC Proms in 2022 by percussionist Colin Currie, Nicole Lizée’s concerto for percussion and orchestra, Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes, is a tour-de-force inspired by techniques found in stop-motion film and photography.

Nicole Lizée

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2026

Ravel’s Boléro · Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Oct 11, 2025

Kronos Quartet · Cal Performances

Nov 21, 2024

Sojourn · Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

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