To open the festival, a diverse family of musicians come together. Community members, high school students, professionals, emerging artists. Tamborine Mountain Orchestra anchors the evening, a local ensemble at the heart of this community. SXS Next Gen soloists step forward, offering glimpses of the next wave of artistic voices. A…

To open the festival, a diverse family of musicians come together. Community members, high school students, professionals, emerging artists. Tamborine Mountain Orchestra anchors the evening, a local ensemble at the heart of this community. SXS Next Gen soloists step forward, offering glimpses of the next wave of artistic voices. A…

Music starts with small things: a breath, a tap, a wobble, a burst of sound. In this interactive show for young and family audiences, instruments come out to play. They hum and buzz, boom and sing, sometimes all at once. Bring your ears, your imagination, and a sense of adventure.

A network of friendships, family ties and artistic influence in early-20th-century Paris. Maurice Ravel finds luminous beauty in Greek folk tunes, while songs by sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger unfold in a world of quiet reflection. Debussy—the great poet of woodwinds—seduces the ear with Syrinx and the Première Rhapsody. Soprano Sara Macliver brings her “thrilling…

You won’t know the performer. You won’t know the location. With your ticket in hand, you will be led to a secret corner of the property, where musicians wait to perform intimate concerts for a handful of people. A violin under the gazebo. A cello in a quiet room. A…

A single musical line, unfolding. In the hands of Timo-Veikko Valve (“Call me Tipi”), the cello becomes storyteller, architect and singer. His playing has been praised for its “burnished tone and expressive depth” and its “clarity and poise.” This program follows the idea of variation across centuries and continents. Older…

Lie down, sit, or stand. However your body wants to listen. Local sound healers Emma and Andrew Heading-Knight lead a relaxing, rejuvenating morning session featuring several festival musicians, who create chamber music from within the moment: instruments responding to breath, stillness and vibration. There is no stage, only sound moving…

Aura Go and Timo-Veikko Valve love playing Beethoven together. Critics say their performances bring “extraordinary life and colour” (Limelight) to his works for cello and piano. In this program they assemble a “new” Beethoven sonata from their favourite movements, then frame it with luminous miniatures: the lyrical stillness of Helvi Leiviskä, the delicate…

Maurice Ravel’s shimmering Three Mallarmé Songs brings together Sara Macliver and the extended family of festival artists. Timo-Veikko Valve joins in vivid duos: Derek Bermel’s Coming Together and Jessie Montgomery’s energetic Duo for violin and cello. Then Mozart’s radiant Exsultate, Jubilate closes the festival in music of pure joy—sending everyone out singing.