WSO: Winnipeg New Music Festival
- Where
- Centennial Concert Hall - View Map
- When
- Website
- https://wso.ca/
CJOB welcomes WSO’s Winnipeg New Music Festival
Throughout its history, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra has played a leading role in supporting the creation of new music in Canada, most notably through its now 35-years-young Winnipeg New Music Festival. Building on this tradition of fostering the voices of the future, the (newly renamed) Michael Nesbitt Composers Institute now enters its seventh year, gathering emerging talents from across the nation to work with the WSO in bringing to life an exciting program of fresh ink orchestral music.
WSO’s Music Director Daniel Raiskin and RBC Assistant Conductor Monica Chen lead your WSO through a set of world premieres of new works by six gifted composers, including the winner of the Canadian Music Centre (Prairie Region)’s annual Emerging Composer Competition. Mentor composers Christopher Theodanidis and Kelly-Marie Murphy join WSO composer-in-residence Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis in introducing this year’s featured young artists as the 2026 Winnipeg New Music Festival lifts off in this free symphonic concert celebrating Winnipeg’s musical community.
This concert is FREE, but tickets must be reserved here.