If you LOVE a choir and orchestra performing together, you won’t want to miss our upcoming concert on April 6th – “A Choral Spectacular!”. A co-production with the SPO and TORONTO CHORAL SOCIETY with over 140 performers, this concert is sure to be beyond exciting. We are also thrilled to have very talented soprano soloist ANNE-MARIE RAMOS joining us! The music begins promptly at 8 pm at The Citadel (2021 Lawrence Ave. E, Scarborough) and tickets are selling fast.  While you can buy your tickets at the door, you may want to use our online ticket ordering system to make
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Our great SPO Ensemble-in-Residence, THE ODIN STRING QUARTET, will be performing on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8 pm at ARRAYMUSIC (155 Walnut Ave., Toronto). You won’t want to miss this talented group with Alex Toskov (violin), Tanya Charles (violin), Veronica Lee (viola), and Samuel Bisson (cello). This concert will feature new compositions from SPO talent, including Bruno Degazio, Alex Eddington, Kevin Zi-Xiao He, Shreya Jha, Chris Meyer and Ronald Royer. Show your support of Canadian talent!
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We just wanted to remind you that our upcoming February 9th concert will be taking place at St. Dunstan of Canterbury Anglican Church, 56 Lawson Road in east Scarborough. Check out this Google Maps link for more details. There’s plenty of free onsite parking, or parking immediately across the street.
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Our Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 1, 2018 was a truly fantastic experience for our perfomers, audience and dignitaries. We wanted to send thanks to our guest performers: David McCartney and the St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Youth and Adult Choirs — Andres Tucci Clarke, Claudia Liedke and the Sistema Scarborough Youth Choir — Yiping Chao and the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra Women’s Choir — and special guest singer, Jacelyn Holmes. The SPO was also honoured to have MPP Salma Zahid and Mr. Zahid join us for some of our festivities. Again, a fun time was had by all.
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The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra is hoping that you can help us support special holiday drives which support friends of the SPO. There’s a few ways you can help families and children in need in our community. 1) Bring a non-perishable food item with you to our December 1st Holiday Concert and support The Salvation Army Food Bank. Most needed are tuna, peanut butter, rice and pasta. Or 2), you can bring an unwrapped toy or gift for a child aged infant to 16 years old and we will deliver them to the Delta Bingo & Gaming Centre Downsview “Toy Drive”
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The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra is pleased to announce that JACELYN HOLMES, one of Canada’s most-talented emerging singer/songwriters, will be joining us for a special performance at our upcoming Holiday Concert. Jacelyn, together with Tony Rabalao and Ronald Royer, have written and arranged new music for our concert. Click here to download our MEDIA RELEASE for this special event, or click here to see our MEDIA RELEASE (EXTENDED) for this concert and coming events!
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Congratulations to Maestro Ronald Royer and our musicians on a very successful concert last night to open our 39th Season. Special thanks to guest pianist Kara Huber for your strong and passionate performance of Brahms Piano Concert No. 2.  Our audience and friends had an awesome time. We also send thanks to our SPO volunteers, led by Board member Heather Castrucci, and to our SPO team who all helped make our guests and dignitaries feel welcome and comfortable. We were also pleased that Scarborough Centre MP Salma Zahid was able to join us during the second half of the concert.
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The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra has been working hard on our social media platforms and our branding. We are thrilled to announce that you and your friends can now find us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, simply by searching for our user name SPOGreatMusic.  Or use the small social media icons found throughout our website! Our Twitter account sings and our Facebook page is under control (it was just recently updated and refreshed, so remember to update your bookmarks or links to https://www.facebook.com/SPOGreatMusic/). We also will be adding more videos going forward on our YouTube channel. Check out the great content
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A gentle reminder that our New Generation Composers Workshop application submission deadline is OCTOBER 31, 2018.  For more information on this amazing opportunity for developing composers, please click here.
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When you’ve selected tickets to buy online, you can use PayPal, Visa or MasterCard to pay for your order.  On our Buy Tickets page (https://www.spo.ca/buy-tickets/tickets/), you’ll find a useful guide on how to use our online ordering system. It’s at the bottom of the page, or click here to go to that page now!
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