As the blistering summer draws to a close, it's time to register for the 2025–2026 season!

Registration link: Here

Rehearsals begin on September 8th at Tritium United Church, located at 415 Linwell Road. Doors will open at 7:00 PM for late registration. Sheet music will be provided at the first rehearsal or available via digital link.

For more information or any questions, feel free to contact us here.

New members are always welcome! Whether you're just beginning your musical journey or have decades of experience, there's a place for everyone. We are especially in need of trumpet and trombone

Niagara Peninsula Chamber Fest. Music lessons. Armature classical music

Hello Summer! Is that you?

We hope this message finds you enjoying the warm weather and maybe (hopefully) practicing.

With the beginning of summer, it must mean it is almost time to start planning for Chamber Fest!!

For those who have attended before, you know all about it.

For those of you who don’t know, here is a little information on how it works and what you might expect when attending.

From August 18th until August 22nd, you and a group of fellow musicians attend evening rehearsals from 6:30pm until 9:30pm to work on pieces of music within smaller instrumental groups arranged by our Music Director to suite the each group’s skill level and mix of instruments.

These groups could can be as small as 2-4 players or larger groups could may be formed of 4-6 players. This all depends on who attends and what mix of instruments are represented.

Each group of players will be assigned an instructor teacher/coach who will work within their your groups to help develop the sound and techniques required.

It is also possible that a another larger ensemble is may also be formed to play a piece or two
together.

You may also join as a preformed group of musicians with your own music (or music selected by your instructor) and benefit from the attention of a professional music instructor to take your group’s
skills to the next level.

Does this sound like something you would be interested in?

Still have questions, feel free to contact use here or by email: info@peninsula-orchestra.com

PROGRAMME

Seranata………………………………………….Leroy Anderson

Ouvertüre zu Collins Trauerspiel

“Coriolan” …….…………... L. van Beethoven, op. 62

Concertino in E minor, Opus 45 ………………. C.M. de Weber

Featuring Michael Rosenberger, French Horn

*Intermission*

Star Trek Through the Years……….……. arr. Calvin Custer

Theme from Star Trek, Theme from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek--The Inner Light, Theme from Star Trek Generations, Star Trek Voyager, Star Tek the Motion Picture

Symphony No. 8 in B minor

"Unfinished Symphony" ………………….F. Schubert

*Reception with Orchestra Members*

The Peninsula Orchestra’s Spring Concert is significant for us as a community-oriented, amateur orchestra. Over the years, our relationship with the Congregation B’Nai Israel has enabled us to elevate our artistic platform within the Niagara Region. In the spirit of community bonding, our spring concert deepens our sense of belonging and connection within the Niagara.

We sincerely thank you for your attendance and your support.

She is certainly not stranger to the Peninsula Orchestra, but let us all welcome Lisa Donati as she will be guest conducting for our upcoming concert in February.

Lisa Donati completed her Bachelor of Music Performance in French Horn at Wilfrid Laurier University, and her Masters of Music Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. She studied with international soloists Michael Thompson and Richard Watkins, and the natural and baroque horns with Andrew Clark. Lisa then continued studies in Toronto at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Artist Diploma Program with Christopher Gongos. Lisa has played with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, the London International Orchestra of Academia, and the Britten-Pears Orchestra in England.

During her time in London, Lisa performed with the London Sinfonietta at such engagements as the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, the Re-Opening of the Royal Festival Hall broadcast live on BBC Radio, and recorded with them for EMI Records at Abbey Road Studios with Icelandic band Sigur Rós. She performed live on BBC Radio alongside Michael Thompson, and in 2008 was featured on CBC Radio in Canada. In 2008, Lisa performed in the Opera Ischia Orchestra in Italy. Lisa has also performed with the Toronto Philharmonia, the Niagara Symphony Orchestra, The Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London, and Toronto’s Trillium Brass Quintet.

Lisa is the Orchestra Conductor at the Niagara Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Camp, where she also Conducts the Concert Band and has been wind and brass faculty since 2011. She is Conductor of the Niagara Youth Concert Orchestra, and has been the Wind and Brass coach of the NYO since 2011. She is a regular guest Conductor and Coach of the Peninsula Orchestra. Lisa maintains a studio of brass students, many of whom have gone on to study music at McGill, Toronto, Laurier, and Brock Universities.

Join us for our first concert of the season for a varied selections from the classical repertoire, including selections of traditional European carols.

This will be our first concert in our new home at Trinity United Church. We are so grateful to now have a new location to rehearse and give concerts for the coming future.

The concert is free, but we would like if you could bring a non-perishable food item that will be collected by Community Care St Catharines. https://communitycarestca.ca/

We hope to see you there.

Dec 12
7:00pm
Trillium United Church
412 Linwell Rd.
St Catharines.

Concert Program December 8

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Martini/Blane arr. Whitney

When You Wish Upon a Star

Washington/Harline arr. Isaac

Star Wars Theme

Williams arr. Smith

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Kent

Symphony 1 in C Major, 2nd mvmt

Beethoven

Christmas Carol Medley

arr. Surell

The First Nowell

Good King Wenceslas

What Child is This

We Three Kings of Orient Are

O Tannenbaum

Jingle Bells

Sleigh Ride

Anderson

Out of the cold concert update

George, Gus and Myra met with Karrie Porter, City Councillor for St. Catharines, who is an Employment Staff Member at Start Me Up Niagara. Karrie explained the numerous programs that Start Me Up Niagara provides to the most vulnerable citizens. Their drop-in centre where coffee and snacks are available all day and a wide variety of support services, including a nursing office and overnight beds, has over 51,000 visits per year - a vast increase from the 7,000 visits they started with a few years ago. Start Me Up Niagara also operates a separate employment advisory office where there are supports to help people on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) become employable and to start their own small businesses. Some have been very successful..

Needless to say, the funds that we helped raise will be put to very good use in the Out of the Cold program that operates from several churches and Start Me Up Niagara headquarters. We raised $1,495.20!

Karrie thanked the orchestra many times and commented on what an excellent concert we presented. She was truly grateful for the monies that we helped to generate. She also asked if we would do another fund-raiser concert next year!

Donate to out of the cold

Past Concert

A special Mid-Winter concert

Luis Gerardo Molina Gonzalez, pianist.

Luis Gerardo Molina Gonzalez is a Mexican pianist and computer scientist with degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of the Americas Puebla, Mexico. He completed three years of music studies at the same college before coming in 2017 to Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, where he completed the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Dr. Karin Di Bella. Nowadays he is studying the Masters’ program of Music Literature and Performance at the University of Western Ontario in London with Dr. Leslie Kinton.

Luis has studied piano from many prominent teachers for over twenty years. His performance career encompasses international competitions and performances in France, U.S.A., Germany, Poland, Russia, Mexico and Canada. He has performed in venues such as the Invalides Church and Radio France in Paris, Music Instruments Museum in Berlin, Regional Conservatory of Nice in France, Geistag in Munich, Asian-Pacific International Arts Festival of Krasnoyarks in Russia, Lublin Conservatory in Poland, and the TV cultural show series Camerata 22 and Cervantino International Festival in Mexico. He has also performed as orchestral soloist in Mexico and France.

Concert Program December 8

Out of the cold concert update

Past Concert

A special Mid-Winter concert

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