Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

We are thrilled to present our 2025/2026 season - RESURRECTION - Tickets available now at kwsymphony.com [link in bio]! Season at a glance: Saturday, September 13, 7:30 pm - Song, Serenade & Symphony (St. Matthews Centre) Thursday, November 20, 2025, 7:30 pm - KWS Fundraising Gala (Centre in the Square) Friday, December 5, 2025, 7:30 pm - French Connections (Central Presbyterian Church, Cambridge) Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:30 pm - French Connections (First United Church United Church, Waterloo) Sunday, December 7, 2025, 2:30 pm - French Connections (Harcourt United Church, Guelph) Friday, December 19, 2025, 7:30 pm – Holiday Pops (St. Matthews Centre) Saturday, December 20, 2025, 2:30 pm – Holiday Pops (St. Matthews Centre) Saturday, December 20, 2025, 7:30 pm – Holiday Pops (St. Matthews Centre) Thursday, January 15, 2026, 7:30 pm – Bhangra Pops (Centre in the Square) Friday, February 20, 2026, 7:30 pm - Genius & Inspiration (St. Matthews Centre) Saturday, March 7, 2026, 7:30 pm - Women of the Baroque (Central Presbyterian Church, Cambridge) Sunday, March 8, 2026, 2:30 pm - Women of the Baroque (First United Church United Church, Waterloo) Sunday, March 8, 2026, 7:30 pm - Women of the Baroque (Harcourt United Church, Guelph) Friday, March 27, 2026, 7:30 pm - Music of the Soul (St. Matthews Centre) Friday, April 10, 2026, 7:30 pm - Morning & Night (Central Presbyterian Church, Cambridge) Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7:30 pm - Morning & Night (First United Church United Church, Waterloo) Sunday, April 12, 2026, 2:30 pm - Morning & Night (Harcourt United Church, Guelph) Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - Murdoch Mysteries (Centre in the Square) Saturday, May 9, 2026, 7:30 pm - The Power of Fate (St. Matthews Centre) #kws #kwsymphony #murdochmysteries #bhangra #kwawesome #centreinthesquare

Thanks to St. Jacob's Mennonite Church for welcoming KWS musicians Allene and Rebecca to their Family Fun Fair last Saturday!

Some of our KWS musicians will be at the Community Family Fun Fair tomorrow! 🎼 #music #kw

Great rehearsal this morning for The Power of Fate! Come to the last concert of the season tomorrow 7:30pm at @thestmatthewscentre , featuring KWS concertmaster Bénédicte Lauzière @benedictelauziere and guest conductor Earl Lee @earlleeconductor 🎶 Get your tickets now at the link in our bio! Tickets can also be purchased at the door.

Get to know our featured artist for The Power of Fate: Bénédicte Lauzière. Described as “beautiful to watch and breathtaking to hear” by the Guelph Mercury, violinist @benedictelauziere leads a prolific career on the Canadian stage. She is concertmaster of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, with which she regularly appears as soloist. Ms Lauzière is an avid chamber musician, her recent collaborations including Emanuel Ax, Mark Fewer, and members of the Penderecki String Quartet. As a recitalist, she enjoys a wonderful partnership with pianist Angela Park. She has won numerous prizes and awards including the Prix d’Europe 2014, the Michael-Measures Award 2011, the Peter Mendell Prize 2010 as well as a grant for professional musicians from the Canada Council for the Arts. Ms Lauzière was a laureate of the Stulberg International String Competition in 2010 and won several first prizes at the Canadian Music Competition. Learn more about Bénédicte Lauzière through the link in our bio!

Get to know our guest conductor for The Power of Fate: Earl Lee. Winner of the 2022 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Korean-Canadian conductor Earl Lee, @earlleeconductor has emerged as one of the most compelling and versatile artists of his generation. He has led many of North America’s foremost orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In August 2025, Lee stepped in on short notice to replace Zubin Mehta in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Tanglewood, where The Boston Globe praised his interpretation as “an unhurried, momentous ritual…the finale nothing short of spectacular.” Learn more about Earl Lee through the link in our bio!

Our friends at the @kw_youthorchestra are presenting their final concert this Sunday! See featured soloists Yesol Seo on Cello and Isaac Schantz on French Horn. The event is at First United Church, Waterloo at 3pm on April 26. More information can be found on the KWYO website: https://kwyo.ca/concerts.html

On Saturday May 9, 7:30pm, renowned Korean-Canadian conductor Earl Lee @earlleeconductor leads the KW Symphony for Mozart’s Violin Concerto #5 with our Concertmaster Bénédicte Lauzière @benedictelauziere Come to St. Matthews Centre in Kitchener, to watch the season conclude with Tchaikovsky’s best-loved symphony, the Fourth. /en-CA/ticketing/the-power-of-fate

From screen to stage 🔍🎶 With over 1 million viewers and fans in 150+ countries, @cbcmurdoch is a Canadian favourite, and last night, it was live at Centre In The Square. Hosted by @yannick_bisson with insights from composer Rob Carli, the night ended with “Murder in F Major” brought to life with a full symphonic score by the @kwsymphony . Photos by @billwoodcock

Witness the wonderful music of Murdoch Mysteries tomorrow, April 15, hosted by the talented @yannick_bisson , lead actor. Murdoch Mysteries is one of Canada’s most acclaimed and longest-running drama series. It stands as one among CBC’s highest-rated series, and has been licensed to broadcasters in over 150 countries. This performance was created for orchestral music lovers and Murdoch Mysteries fans across Canada. It all starts Wednesday at 7:30 at Centre In The Square! @centre_square

Amazing rehearsals yesterday with @inuksoprano ! Our Morning & Night concerts begin tonight at @central_church_cambridge in @cityofcbridge at 7:30pm. 🎶 Tickets are still available! Buy online at the link in our bio or at the door. Concerts continue tomorrow in Guelph and Waterloo, so don't miss out!🎙️

See Deantha Edmunds @inuksoprano perform ‘Angmalukisaa,’ live as part of Morning & Night with the KW Symphony on April 10 & 11! 2025 JUNO award-winning composition ‘Angmalukisaa,’ which means “round” or “rings” in Inuktut, is a multi-song cycle that speaks to how we relate to one another and our planet. The song explores the theme of rings: the rings that tell the age of a tree, the spiral structure of an iglu, concentric sound rings, and ripples of water. Deantha wrote the lyrics in English and they were interpreted and translated into Inuktut by Mary Nashook of Nunavut. This work was commissioned by Mark Fewer and Deantha recorded it with Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia on the JUNO-nominated classical album ‘Alikeness,’ conducted and produced by Mark Fewer with Leaf Music. See the lyrics to each movement here, alongside photos taken by Deantha. The photo for Movement III is of Deantha's daughter Annabelle's grade 3 science project. Deantha notes that, "In 2019, we learned about cymatics on 'The Science of Sound' episode of Dr. David Suzuki's The Nature of Things, and she asked if she could explore this in her Curiosity Fair project. She did a simple experiment using a metal plate, her violin bow, and salt, to show what sound could look like. It was so interesting, and the idea of cymatics stayed with me... what sound waves look like, and also how the vibrations we create with our voices as singers travel and change the energy in the spaces we inhabit in our time here on earth. "