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On Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, the Kingston Symphony presents the fourth Masterworks concert of the season, Hindemith & Haydn. Our own Principal Flute, Amelia Lyon, will dazzle you with a reimagining of Hindemith's Flute Sonata, newly orchestrated for flute and strings. This concert features music which showcases the different sides of composers - like Respighi, Wagner, and Haydn - and how multifaceted they can be, reflecting the variety of their compositional personalities. Not to be missed!

The Kingston Baroque Consort presents “Viva Vivaldi!” on Friday 17 January, 5:15pm, at St. James Church (10 Union St, Kingston), featuring vivacious music for strings and winds by Antonio Vivaldi, with special guest artist Bassist Shanti Nachtergaele from Montreal. The program will include Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor (RV580) for 4 violins, cello, strings, and continuo.

Tickets cost $25 (Adults), $10 (Students), and free for under 17, and are available at Novel Idea (156 Princess St) or by emailing/calling legerek@queensu.ca, 613-217-5099.  Visit  Kingstonbaroqueconsort.ca.

Shanti Nachtergaele specializes in historically informed performances of music from the 16th through 19th centuries and has performed with ensembles such as the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), Accordes! (Oxford), and Les Méandres (Montreal). She holds a BMus in performance from Shenandoah Conservatory, an MMus in early music from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, an MA in music theory and history from Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD from McGill University.

The Kingston Baroque Consort was founded in 2021 as an orchestra devoted to historically informed practice of music from the Baroque era. Founded by Katie Legere, Jeff Hamacher, Julia McFarlane, and Michael Capon, the KBC is a collective of professional musicians drawn from the Kingston Symphony Orchestra and the wider community.