Name: Scheherazade
Start: 2024-10-18T19:30:00
Location: Dalhousie University

Holly Mathieson

Tony Yike Yang

Symphony Nova Scotia

With a string of impressive awards (including the ECMA’s Group of the Year in 2025), gold and platinum singles, sold-out international appearances, and over 100-million streams to their credit, Halifax’s own Neon Dreams are alt-pop pioneers, drawing inspiration from diverse pop, rock, folk, electronic, dance, hip-hop, and reggae influences. Known for their high-energy performances and multi-instrumental prowess, they join conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser (himself a huge fan of the group) for their orchestral debut with Symphony Nova Scotia.

Neon Dreams

Dalhousie University

It’s one of the most beloved works of the Romantic era and Rimsky-Korsakov’s grandest symphonic masterpiece. And now, Symphony Nova Scotia performs the imaginative, colourful Scheherazade for the first time in almost a decade. Music Director Holly Mathieson conducts this awe-inspiring tour de force that the composer himself called “a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images” to kick off our Spotlight Series. Plus, multi-award-winning, rising star Canadian pianist Tony Yike Yang – youngest-ever laureate in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition and hailed as “one of Canada’s finest young musicians” (CBC) – joins us to perform Tchaikovksy’s captivating Piano Concerto No. 1, a piece that has been admired for over 150 years for its virtuosic piano writing, lush melodies, and beautiful orchestration.