Non-series Concerts
Every year, the orchestra offers to the communities of the West Island approximately six concerts either with free entrance or based on voluntary donations. We invite you to check this page often because new activities are added throughout the season.
Past Concerts
Christmas Concert
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 7:30 P.M.
Sainte-Geneviève Church
16037, boul. Gouin, Ste-Geneviève, Qc H9H 1C7
with Choeur Classique de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Anderson : A Christmas Festival
Schumann : Winterzeit
J.S. Bach : Double Concerto
Sandrine Ladouceur et Violet Webster, solistes
Anderson : Sleigh Ride
Tchaikovsky : Excerpts from The Nutcracker
Chants de Noël
The Piano Guys
Wednesday August 1, 2018 at 8:00 P.M.
The Piano Guys
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier,175 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal, QC H2X 3X5
Célébration de Saint-Jean Baptiste à Pointe-Claire
POINTE-CLAIRE : Quebec’s National Holiday activities postponed to June 25. Unfortunately, WIYSO will not be there, but we encourage everyone to come out Monday for this celebration!
Concert dans le jardin
Friday June 15, 2018 at 7:30 P.M.
West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra
Centre civique de Dollard-des-Ormeaux - 12001 Salaberry Blvd, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC H9B 2A7
Free Concert - Presented by the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Mercure : Kaleidoscope
R. Strauss : Concerto pour cor No. 1 Op. 11, 3e mouvement
Prokofiev : Suite Roméo et Juliette
1. Montagues and Capulets
Reinecke : Concerto pour flute, 2e mouvement
Beethoven : Symphonie no. 6, « Pastorale »
1. Allegro ma non troppo
Dvorak : Symphony no. 9, « Nouveaux Mondes », 2e mouvement
Shore : Symphonic Suite from Lord of the Rings
Small Ensembles Recital
Sunday April 15, 2018 at 3:00 P.M.
Église Beaurepaire, 25 Avenue Fieldfare, Beaconsfield, QC H9W 4W4
Tickets $10 at the door - Presented by the city of Beaconsfield
J’ai cueilli la belle rose (Leo Smith)
Emperor String Quarted, 2nd movement (Haydn)
String Quartet, F major, 1st movement (Ravel)
Quintette, op. 43, (Carl Nielsen)
-Allegro ben moderato
-Menuet
Libertango (A. Piazolla)
Oblivion (A. Piazolla)
Tango Por una Cabernza (Carlos Gardel, arr. Irina Lazaryeva)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (J. Brahms)
Canzon Bergamasca (Samuel Scheidt, arr. de Jong)
Nimrod (Edward Elgar. arr. Matt Kingston)
Suite from the Montereian Hills (Morely Calvert)
-La Marche
That’s a Plenty (Lew Pollack, arr. Cooper)
Spring Concert
Sunday April 8, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M.
String Orchestra with the McGill Conservatory of Music, conducted by Dmitry Babich.
Centre civique de Dollard-des-Ormeaux - 12001 Salaberry Blvd, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC H9B 2A7
Free Concert - Presented by the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux
McGill Conservatory String Ensemble
Johann Sebastian Bach - Gavottes 1, 2 from Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D major
Ronan Hardiman - Cry of the Celts
Together
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni - Adagio for strings (arr. Dmitry Babich)
Johann Strauss, Sr. - Radetzky March, Op. 228 (arr. Douglas Stroud)
WIYSO String Orchestra
Michael Reilly - Bylina (arr. Ilya Levinson)
Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance (arr. Robert S. Frost)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on the G String (arr. Donald Riggio)
John Williams - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Suite (arr. Michael Story)
Antonin Dvořák - Symphony No. 8 in G Major Op. 88 "Finale" (arr. Sandra Dackow)
Le Gala des Enfants
Saturday february 17, 2018
Salle Pauline-Julien at Cégep Gérald-Godin
15615 Boul. Gouin West, Sainte-Geneviève, QC H9H 5K8
Tickets: child $15, adult $25
To purchase tickets, click HERE
(Presented by National Bank, benefiting West Island Community Shares)
11:00 a.m.
Doors open
Make-up
Photo session for everyone
Mascots
12:00 p.m.
Lunch boxes for everyone
1:00 p.m.
Opening remarks
Musical variety show and circus
2:00 p.m.
Dessert cocktail
CANADA 150 Community JamFest
Sunday August 13, 2017 at 12:00 P.M.
CENTENNIAL PARK, 288 Beaconsfield Blvd.
If rain: Beaconsfield High School, 250 Beaurepaire st.
Presented by the City of Beaconsfield
12:00 p.m. Leandre Gaucher - Violin
12:10 p.m. Daniel Benedetti - Accordion
12:20 p.m. West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra (small ensemble)
1:00 p.m. Deer Family Mohawk Singers and Dancers
1:20 p.m. Kerry Anne Kutz and friends
2:15 p.m. Natasha Woytiuk and James Houghton- Irish Dancers
2:30 p.m. Nadxieli Mexican Dance Ensemble
3:00 p.m. Lakeshore Concert Band
3:45 p.m. Afrikan Intshiyeto
4:30 p.m. Bringing Back Broadway
5:15 p.m. BREAK
6:00 p.m. Salute to Women of the Canadian armed forces - Flag Ceremony and JAM-filled’ Canada 150 cupcakes
7:45 p.m. Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli
8:15 p.m. Bowser & Blue
9:00 p.m. The Gossage Brothers, Celtic
10:00 p.m. Fireworks by Royal Pyrotechnie
« Christmas around the world »
DECEMBER 10, 2017 AT 3:00 P.M.
WIYSO with The Kingston Youth Choir under the direction of Emily McPherson
St. James Anglican Church - 20 High Street, Morrisburg ON K0C 1X0
Tickets:
$25 (Students $15)
tiltedsteeple@eastlink.ca
+1-613-543-3863
Presented by the Tilted Steeple Coffee House
Humperdinck- Overture to Hansel and Gretel
Tchaikovsky- suite de Casse-noisette
Carol of the Bells
-L’Enfant au Tambour (Arr. D. Martin)
-Les Anges dans Nos Campagnes (Arr. D. Martin)
Holst- Fantasia on the Dargason
Leroy Anderson Sleigh Ride
Yon Gesu Bambino
Airs de Noël (avec Choeur d’enfants)
-Betelehemu (Arr. D. Martin)
-Nochebuena Paraguaya (Arr. D. Martin)
-Have yourself a merry little Christmas (Arr. D. Martin)
Leroy Anderson A Christmas Festival