November 16: Music Without Borders
December 21: Song for a Winter’s Night
February 8: Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
March 8: Mostly Mendelssohn
May 10: Beethoven’s Fifth

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

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The Okanagan Symphony Orchestra presents a genre-defying performance with musical polymath Dinuk Wijeratne—composer, conductor, and pianist—blending classical, jazz, and Indian traditions. This concert will be performed without an intermission, Dinuk shares personal stories and performs music close to his heart, including Gajaga Vanama, a masterpiece for piano and strings inspired by his Sri Lankan heritage.

Program
Kareem Roustom: Dabke
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Wijeratne: Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems
Bartok: Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs
Wijeratne: Gajaga Vanama

November 16: Music Without Borders
December 21: Song for a Winter’s Night
February 8: Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
March 8: Mostly Mendelssohn
May 10: Beethoven’s Fifth

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$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
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Freya joins the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and OSO Chorus for a heartwarming concert of original songs and new takes on beloved winter classics that celebrate the season’s beauty. This concert began as a small-town celebration and now welcomes Okanagan audiences to share a musical journey exploring connection, memories, and the cozy nostalgia of winter.

Program
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November 16: Music Without Borders
December 21: Song for a Winter’s Night
February 8: Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
March 8: Mostly Mendelssohn
May 10: Beethoven’s Fifth

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Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

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$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
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“Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts,” wrote Tchaikovsky—and his monumental Symphony No. 5 embodies that spirit in full. In his conducting debut as the Okanagan Symphony’s music director, Julian Pellicano leads a program of symphonic masterpieces, including a special Side-by-Side performance with the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Program

Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Berlioz: Rakcozy March (Side-by-Side) (Zeena Zaiyouna, conductor)
Verdi: Nabucco Overture (Side-by-Side)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

November 16: Music Without Borders
December 21: Song for a Winter’s Night
February 8: Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
March 8: Mostly Mendelssohn
May 10: Beethoven’s Fifth

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$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
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Beloved by Okanagan audiences, pianist Ian Parker returns—this time to the podium—to lead a program focused on Felix Mendelssohn. Following last season’s performance of his Italian Symphony, Parker conducts the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s dramatic Scottish Symphony. Pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, takes us on a journey with Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Program
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Op. 56 in A minor “Scottish”

November 16: Music Without Borders
December 21: Song for a Winter’s Night
February 8: Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
March 8: Mostly Mendelssohn
May 10: Beethoven’s Fifth

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$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
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Experience the symphony that changed music forever. Shocking at the time of its premiere with its emotional intensity, today Beethoven’s 5th is one of the world’s most recognizable works of art. After more than a decade, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra returns to this iconic masterpiece to close the season with this monument of musical expression. This concert also features the OSO Chorus in Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass, a profound and expressive journey, full of soaring melodies and walls of sonic power.

Program
Ola Gijielo: Sunrise Mass
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, op. 67