2011 - 2012 concerts

jeff joudrey, artistic director
cynthia davies, accompanist

Handel's "Dublin" Messiah

• Wed. Dec. 21, 2011 | 7:30pm • Thu. Dec. 22, 2011 | 7:30pm
• Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre
• Featuring: Kevin Mallon, conductor
• Virginia Hatfield, soprano
• Maria Soulis, alto
• Joseph Schnurr, tenor
• Giles Tomkins, bass
• The Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus
• (Halifax Camerata Singers, core choir)

Two years ago, Nova Scotians raved over Canadian conductor Kevin Mallon’s “Dublin” Messiah. Now, this lively, historical interpretation of Handel’s masterpiece once again returns to Halifax, this time with four of Mallon’s favourite, hand-picked baroque singers.

Don’t miss your chance to hear this moving, electrifying holiday favourite in all its original glory, just the way the Dublin audience would have heard it back in 1742.

Fauré's Requiem

• Sun. Apr. 22, 2010 | 7:30pm
• Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre
• Featuring: Monica Whicher, soprano
• Nathaniel Watson, baritone
• Bernhard Gueller, conductor
• The Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus
• (Halifax Camerata Singers, core choir)

Fauré: Requiem and Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 "Organ"

Symphony Nova Scotia pulls out all the stops in this spectacular season closer. First, hear the orchestra perform Fauré’s beautiful, intimate Requiem for the first time in two decades.

Then, experience the spectacle of Saint-Saëns’ massive Organ Symphony – made possible for the very first time in Nova Scotia history by installing a magnificent, 16-speaker Rodgers Masterpiece organ onstage at the Rebecca Cohn.