KnightsFest returns! Join us for the return of our FREE Family Day Medieval Festival generously supported by @td_canada! Monday February 20th from 10 am-3 pm. Combat Demos, Trebuchets, Medieval Dancing, and more!

Join us for the second annual Summer String camp for a week of fun, learning and skills development. The week will include orchestra rehearsal, daily sectionals with guest instructors, drumming, and other activities including visual art, dance/movement, outdoor play, and much more. All culminating in an end of week performance for families to see what we’ve been up to all ...

Lee Tsang spoken word/baritone Penderecki String Quartet David Braid Logic Pro/piano Peter Shackleton clarinet David Braid Nine Dragons (2022) David Braid  Five Kazakh Impressions (2022) — Canadian premiere! David Braid  Three Pieces from "Dark Butterflies” (2021) The Penderecki String Quartet joins internationally-renowned Canadian pianist/composer David Braid and baritone Lee Tsang (head of Classical Music Performance at the University of Liverpool in the UK) for this Guelph Musicfest special concert. This ...

The GYMC STRING ORCHESTRAS present their SPRING CONCERT—Bach to The Beatles! Joy Schuster leads our talented young musicians in this annual treat. Head down to the GYMC Recital Hall SATURDAY April 29 at 4 pm. ADMISSION FREE. Donations welcome to help support the program. Refreshments after the concert!

Season 17 of Guelph Musicfest opens with the legendary QUARTETTO GELATO. With sold-out performances in New York, Washington, L.A., London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and elsewhere, this dazzling ensemble has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide with its exotic blend of musical virtuosity, artistic passion and humour. With a performance repertoire that spans the globe and includes classical masterworks, engaging vocals, the ...

Proclaimed "a phenomenon" by the Los Angeles Times and "one of the best pianists of his generation" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, STEWART GOODYEAR is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser and composer. Mr. Goodyear has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world. His program includes the monumental LISZT SONATA ...

Guelph Musicfest is thrilled to welcome back Charles Richard-Hamelin. This great artists stands out on the international music scene as a “highly sensitive” pianist (Gramophone), driven by “a great depth of feeling without the slightest condescension” (Le Devoir). He is recognized as “fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive… a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication” (BBC Music Magazine). Silver medalist and ...

Guelph Musicfest welcomes back the internationally-renowned PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET. Celebrating their 33rd anniversary, the Penderecki String Quartet began their career as winners of the Penderecki Prize at the National Chamber Music Competition in Łódz, Poland in 1986. Now based in Waterloo, Ontario where they have been Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1991, The Penderecki String Quartet has become one ...

Guelph Musicfest's 2023 festival concludes with the FESTIVAL TRIO with violinist SADIE FIELDS (Belgium), pianist/artistic director KEN GEE and welcoming new cellist CAMERON CROZMAN (Montreal). Rising-star Cameron (who recently appeared as a soloist with the KW Symphony) and his love of French music has inspired this program which includes the exquisite RAVEL PIANO TRIO, Turina's Trio no. 2, Debussy's Violin ...