2024-25 Concert Series
Announcing Music at Memorial's Fall 2024/Winter 2025 Concert Series!
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 box office 30 minutes prior to performance.
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.
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For information on parking, visit this page for Visitors to MUN St. John's Campus.
Iris Trio
Night Music
MAINSTAGE CONCERT SERIES
Thursday, January 16, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
The critically acclaimed Iris Trio, with faculty member Christine Carter on clarinet, returns to Music at Memorial for the world premiere of their program Night Music. Explore the realm of the night, weaving through mystery, romance, and the subconscious in Max Bruch's sublime "Night Song" and enchanting new commissions by Randall Woolf, David Jaeger, and beloved Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean.
Meghan Herder, Caroline Schiller, Mado Christie
Two Sopranos Are Better Than One
NOON CONCERT SERIES
Tuesday, January 21, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
Join Meghan Herder, Caroline Schiller, and Mado Christie for a lunch hour look at love and loss. Repertoire will include works by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Barber, and Bareilles.
(FREE ADMISSION)
Newfound Music Festival
Guest Artists Keith Hamel and Megumi Masaki
January 30-31
Newfound Music Festival, now in its 22nd 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. Find out more about the guest artists and the festival schedule on our Newfound Music Festival page.
Michelle Cheramy, Phil Roberts
Fanmi Imèn (Human Family)
NOON CONCERT SERIES
Tuesday, February 11, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
Diverse voices from the “fanmi imèn” (human family) of living composers speak in this program of contemporary lyrical and virtuosic works for flute. Join flutist Michelle Cheramy and pianist Phil Roberts for music by Tania Léon, Valerie Coleman, Eliot Britton, Dorothy Chang, Yuko Uebayashi and Amanda Harberg.
(FREE ADMISSION)
Opera Workshop
Childhood Fables for Grownups
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Saturday, February 15, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 16, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join MUN’s Opera Workshop for a wild ride through some of opera theatre’s most iconic scenes. Disguises abound and surprises are around every corner all set to the music of Mozart, Handel, Rossini, Jobidon, Richmond and Maxwell.
Vernon Regehr, Nancy Dahn, Christine Carter, Patrick Cashin
Quartet for the End of Time
MAINSTAGE CONCERT SERIES
Thursday, February 20, 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.
Faculty Gala
MAINSTAGE CONCERT SERIES
Thursday, March 6, 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 Percussion Ensemble
Impact!
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Saturday, March 15, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Hear the Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble perform exciting repertoire in their Winter concert!
Alan Klaus, Tim Dueppen, Daryna Holius
Tephra Collective
MAINSTAGE CONCERT SERIES
Thursday, March 20, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join faculty member Alan Klaus, American trombonist virtuoso Tim Dueppen, Ukrainian pianist Daryna Holius and special guests for a varied program ranging from Rossini and Damase to Tephra Collective commissions including award-winning composer Derrick Skye.
Jazz Orchestra
Fascinating Rhythm
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Saturday, March 22, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Join the MUN Jazz Orchestra for an afternoon of enchanting rhythms from South America and beyond. The ensemble will play groove-packed compositions and arrangements by Dafnis Prieto, Miho Hazama, Annie Booth, Jessika Smith, Hilario Duran and others that will help you forget that it's still the middle of winter.
Memorial University Choirs
Choral Baroque
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Sunday, March 23, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Memorial University Festival and Chamber Choirs will dedicate their term end concert to the choral excellence of Baroque era including Pergolesi’s masterpiece Stabat Mater and other baroque choral compositions!
Photo by Tim Leyes
Duo Concertante
Words Unspoken
NOON CONCERT SERIES
Tuesday, March 25, 12pm
Suncor Energy Hall
Tim and Nancy present Schubert’s exquisite Fantasy for violin and piano, inspired by his song “Sei mir gegrüßt”. Rounding out the program is Beethoven’s fiery Sonata in a minor op. 23.
(FREE ADMISSION)
Wind Ensemble
Land & Sea
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Thursday, March 27, 7:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
MUN Bands proudly presents Land & Sea, a program celebrating the beauty of the land and the majesty of the sea. This concert marks the debut of Memorial University’s new campus band, the MUN Concert Winds, performing works by Alex Shapiro, Eric Whitacre, Pierre La Plante, and Michael Sweeney.
The second half of the program features the MUN Wind Ensemble, performing works by Kevin Day, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Peter Meechan. The performance will culminate with 2025 MUN Bands Composer-in-Residence, Alex Shapiro’s epic symphony for winds, brass, percussion, and electronics, Immersion.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music inspired by the wonders of nature!
Chamber Orchestra
Magic of Mozart
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Saturday, April 5, 1:30pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall
Dramatic, poetic, elegant, and spine-tingling: and that’s just for starters! W.A. Mozart’s iconic Symphony No. 40 is worth the price of admission alone, but we’ll sprinkle in short works by Stravinsky and others.
Chamber Music Showcase
ENSEMBLE CONCERT SERIES
Sunday, April 6, 1:30pm
Suncor Energy Hall
School of Music graduate and undergraduate students showcase their collaborative skills performing in small, conductorless ensembles in a musical variety show.
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