The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022-23 season, presenting a full five-concert season led by Music Director Michael Newnham at the Showplace Performance Centre, and welcoming audiences back to full capacity for the first time since the start of the pandemic .

The orchestra had presented a reduced season earlier this year with three concerts, each with matinee and evening performances to accommodate reduced audience capacity due to the pandemic. For 2022-23, all concerts will revert to a single performance from 7:30 p.m.

The 2022-23 season will kick off Saturday, November 5 with “Welcome Back,” a concert featuring a performance by Symphony No. 5, Ludwig van Beethoven’s most famous symphony. The concert will also include a performance by Between earth and eternity by Canadian composer Kevin Lau, which will feature guest soloist Snow Bai on the erhu, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument.

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On Saturday, December 10, the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra will resume its traditional holiday concert with ‘A Holiday Welcome’, featuring a program of seasonal music – including classical and popular compositions – with vocals from renowned Canadian baritone James Westman.

The first concert of 2023 will be “An Intimate Welcome” on Saturday February 7, featuring the orchestra’s wind section with performances of works by German composer Richard Strauss and French composer Charles Gounod, and principal instrumentalists at strings of the orchestra with the evergreen of the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak quintet Opus 77.

On Saturday April 1, “Welcome Spring” will see the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra perform the work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2with Canadian virtuoso pianist Alexander Panizza in the orchestra of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1.

The final concert of the 2022-23 season, “Welcome to the Dance”, on Saturday May 27, will feature words by Peterborough’s first Poet Laureate, Sarah Lewis, as well as compositions by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (Firebird Suite), the African-American composer Florence Price (Dances in the Canebrakes), and contemporary American composer Leonard Bernstein (Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”).

Season passes for all but the holiday concerts are now available with prices ranging from $105 to $235 depending on seating, and $10 per concert for student passes. The Holiday Concert on December 10 costs an additional $40 ($12 for students). For seasonal subscriptions, contact the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra at 705-742-1992 or admin@thepso.org.

Regular single tickets go on sale Friday, July 15 with prices ranging from $33 to $55 ($12 for students). Tickets for the holiday concert on December 10 will cost $45 ($12 for students). Tickets will be available at the Showplace Performance Center by calling 705-742-7469 or visiting showplace.org.

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New for the 2022-23 season, the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra will offer an “emergency ticket” program. On the day of each concert, if seats are available, tickets will go live for just $20.

“We hope this program will help us welcome more listeners to share the music with us,” CEO Lee Bolton said in a press release.

For more information on the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, visit thepso.org.