2025-26 Concert Series
Announcing our Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 Concert Series, part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations! School of Music alumni are featured throughout our 50th Anniversary Concert Series and highlighted with an *.
Our Mainstage Series gives you the opportunity to hear performances from our internationally acclaimed faculty. Our Ensemble Series showcases the variety of exciting ensembles at the School of Music. In our Noon Series, you can enjoy free performances from the School of Music community during your lunch hour.
Ticket prices:
Mainstage Series: $30 (General) / $24 (Seniors) / $10 (Youth 13-30) / $5 (12 & under)
Ensemble Series: $24 (General) / $20 (Seniors) / $10 (Youth 13-30) / $5 (12 & under)
Noon Series: FREE
Concert 5-Pack: Get any five concert admissions for $100 (General) / $80 (Seniors). Concert 5-Packs are available at our D.F. Cook Recital Hall box office 30 minutes prior to a ticketed event in our concert series.
Free Ensemble Series tickets for junior high and high school students: Junior high and high school students are invited to attend any of our Ensemble Series concerts free of charge. Email music@mun.ca to receive a complimentary ticket. *Please note, a limited number of complimentary tickets are available per concert.
All ticket prices include fees. All concerts are general admission (no assigned seating). Tickets can be purchased online at the link below, by calling Ticket Pro at 1-888-311-9090, or at the door 30 minutes prior to performance. Online sales end one hour prior to showtime and all remaining tickets are sold at the door only.
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Alumni Showcase*
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, September 18, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
It’s the 50th anniversary of the School of Music and we have a lot to celebrate! Join us as we kick off our 50th Anniversary Concert Series by showcasing some of the talented alumni in our local community in a diverse musical variety show featuring David Pomeroy*, Evan Watts Smith*, Petrina Bromley*, Bill Brennan*, Jing Xia*, Ben Diamond*, Matthew Roome*, Andrew Gosse*, Katie Sullivan*, Katherine Moffatt*, and Michael O'Keefe*!
Front Row Seats
Michelle Cheramy and Annie Corrigan with Stella Hui* and Christine Carter
Noon Concert Series
Tuesday, September 23, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
FREE ADMISSION
Colleagues both at the School of Music and in the front row woodwinds of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Michelle Cheramy and Annie Corrigan invite you to roam the centuries with them in a program of chamber music featuring flute and oboe. Joined by Christine Carter, clarinet, and Stella Hui*, piano, this concert features works by JJ Quantz, Malcolm Arnold, Ingrid Stölzel and others. Get your front row seats today!
Origins
Florian Hoefner Group
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, October 2, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join the world premiere of this new quartet led by Florian Hoefner feat. Lucas Pino on tenor sax (NYC), Adrian Vedady (Montréal) on bass and Jay Sawyer (NYC) on drums. In their inaugural performance this group will present brand new original compositions written specifically for this line-up. Expect groove based modern jazz with captivating visiting performers.
Piano Pyrotechnics
Linda Ruan
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, October 9, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
The 2025 Eckhardt-Gramatté winner Linda Ruan performs a stunning program featuring the works of Alice Ho, Anne Southam, Rita Ueda, Elisenda Fabregas, and Vincent Ho’s iconic Supervillain Etudes.
Double Vision
Duo Concertante
Noon Concert Series
Thursday, October 16, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
FREE ADMISSION
Duo Concertante celebrates their decades-long focus on standard repertoire and new music with selections from their two brand new albums - Dark Tales, by Alice Ho, and Maier Franck Schumann.
Kaleidoscope
Wind Ensemble and Royal Newfoundland Regiment Band
Ensemble Concert Series
Thursday, October 30, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join the Memorial University Wind Ensemble and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Band for Kaleidoscope, a concert that brings together a wide range of musical voices in a program that explores connection, creativity, and community. Featuring works by Hope Salmonson, Michael Markowski, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Katahj Copley, Cait Nishimura and more. The evening also marks the world premiere of Atlantic Suite by Music at Memorial alumnus Dr. Jason Noble, an evocative new work that captures the spirit of Atlantic Canada, featuring folksongs from each Atlantic province.
For the Silenced
Trinitas Chamber Ensemble
Mainstage Concert Series
Friday, November 7, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Works by censured or silenced composers Dick Katenburg, Elena Firsova, Heriëtte Bosmans, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg provide the core of a program of music that invites us to consider who has a voice, and who does not. Join the Trinitas Chamber Ensemble (Michelle Cheramy, flute, Nathan Cook, cello, Phil Roberts*, piano) with guest violinist Heather Kao* in this concert of Romantic, contemplative, and modernist music.
Roll Out the Rhythms
Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble
Ensemble Concert Series
Saturday, November 8, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join the Scruncheons for an afternoon of riveting music for percussion. New grooves, new music, new sound explorations, and a whole lot of fun. Something for everyone!
Quartet for the End of Time
Vernon Regehr, Nancy Dahn, Christine Carter, Patrick Cashin*
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, November 13, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
A work of great emotional and spiritual depth, the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen is widely considered to be among the most profound works of the 20th century. Written for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello, it was composed and premiered in a prisoner of war camp during World War II, and features birdsong, unusual rhythmic motives, and moments of serene reflection.
Colours
Jazz Orchestra
Ensemble Concert Series
Saturday, November 15, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
The MUN Jazz Orchestra will present a selection of favourites from their book including classic and contemporary arrangements of swing and latin jazz.
Memorial University Choirs
Ensemble Concert Series
Sunday, November 16, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
MUN Opera Workshop
Ensemble Concert Series
November 21, 7:30pm
November 22, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Music of the Heart
Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Concert Series
Sunday, November 30, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
There will be no shortage of great melodies in this concert, featuring a performance of Carl Reineke's flute concerto performed by Manae Ryu, this year's competition winner, and the always expressive and dramatic music of Franz Schubert.
Portraits of the North
Concert Winds
Ensemble Concert Series
Monday, December 1, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Experience Canada in sound. Portraits of the North explores landscapes, stories, and songs of place and memory.
Chamber Music Showcase
Ensemble Concert Series
December 7, 1:30pm
Suncor Energy Hall
Dear Teacher
Stephen Eckert*
Noon Concert Series
Tuesday, January 13, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
FREE ADMISSION
Stephen Eckert* presents a program of contemporary piano works that reflect on their teachers, including the late Dr. Kristina Szutor and Dr. Gary Graham. Music by Charlotte Bray and Juro Kim Feliz interpolates those by Memorial's own Robert Humber* (Bmus ‘17) and Dr. Clark Ross. With desperately driving rhythms, fragile quotations, and explosive virtuosity, these composers sound out the complex whirlwind of loss. Emotionally frank, this program reflects on memory, grief, and gifts for which we can never repay. Dear Teacher is a eulogy, an expression of gratitude, and a demand that we witness the love around us.
A Celebration of the Guitar at MUN
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, January 15, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Guitar at MUN has had a long and storied history: faculty, eminent alumni, and current students continue that story in a concert featuring two world premieres! This concert features ChromaDuo (Tracy Smith and Rob MacDonald), Steve Cowan*, Ben Diamond*, Noel Gutierrez*, Brad Jefford*, Steve Murphy*, and the MUN guitar ensemble.
Rhythm in Blue
A Collaboration between Looking Glass Ensemble and Iris Trio
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, January 22, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Rhythm in Blue is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that weaves contemporary dance with jazz and classical music to explore the urgency and wonder of our relationship with each other and the living world. Shaped by an interplay of improvisation and composed structures, the program evokes the textures of climate, land, and body through movement, sound, and language. A collaboration between choreographer Shannon Litzenberger, dancers Nickeshia Garrick, Judy Luo, and Kathia Wittenborn, musicians Christine Carter, Zoë Martin-Doike, Florian Hoefner, Jacob Slous, and Jim Vivian, and poet Don McKay, Rhythm in Blue invites audiences into an embodied reflection on collective human and planetary thriving.
Newfound Music Festival
Thursday, January 29 – Friday, January 30
School of Music
Newfound Music Festival, now in its 23rd year, is an annual festival that invites students, alumni, and faculty to share their "Newfound ideas" with the School of Music community. Join us for workshops, a symposium, special guests, concerts, and a final gala performance. This year’s special guest will be the celebrated saxophone quartet Quasar.
The Passage of Time – A Golden Centennial Celebration
Alan Klaus, Stella Hui*, Tracy Smith
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, February 5, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Celebrate Memorial University's Centennial and the School of Music's Golden 50th anniversaries with a commemorative program ranging from soulful stillness to virtuosic fireworks. Featuring trumpeter Alan Klaus with alumni pianist Stella Hui*, faculty member Tracy Smith, and a special guest.
A Time and a Place - The Music of Rob Power
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, February 12, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
An Album Release Concert featuring new music for percussion composed by Rob Power*, with special guests Bill Brennan*, Erin Donovan, Étienne Gendron, The Scruncheons, and Lady Cove Choir. [The Scruncheons and Lady Cove Choir feature School of Music alumni.]
MUN Alumni Big Band*
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, February 19, 7:30pm
The Rooms
Join School of Music alumni and current students for an evening of exciting big band jazz showcasing the talent of the School of Music community. Visit therooms.ca for an announcement about tickets.
***Please note that student concert passes and 5-pack concert passes are not accepted for this concert.*
Faculty Gala
Mainstage Concert Series
Thursday, March 5, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Don’t miss our most anticipated concert of the year! Always full of surprises, our Faculty Gala features performances by some of the School of Music’s acclaimed faculty, staff, and students.
Scruncheons
Ensemble Concert Series
Saturday, March 14, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Jazz Orchestra
Ensemble Concert Series
Saturday, March 21, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Memorial University Choirs
Ensemble Concert Series
Sunday, March 22, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds
Ensemble Concert Series
Thursday, March 26, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Concert Series
Thursday, April 2, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Chamber Music Showcase
Ensemble Concert Series
Sunday, April 12, 1:30pm
Suncor Energy Hall
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