The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra (PSO) returns to the Showplace Performance Center in downtown Peterborough next year with its first in-person concerts since the start of the pandemic.

The season of three concerts, on the theme “Soaring to a New Dawn”, will also offer something new for the orchestra: a morning and an evening for each of the three concerts on Saturday.

As always, the concerts will be led by PSO Music Director Michael Newnham, who describes the season’s repertoire as “music of positivity and light for this reopening period” with a variety of styles and exciting guest artists.

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The 2022 season kicks off on February 5 with a winter concert titled “Wings of Sound”, promising to offer customers “the chance to get away from winter”. Renowned bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson to join PSO to perform Mathieu Lussier’s piece Strange Birds Concerto.

On April 2, “As The Sun Rises” will welcome spring with music of renewal and hope, notably that of Wagner Siegfried’s Idyll and Copland Appalachian Spring.

On May 28, Canadian comedy legend Luba Goy will host “A Concert of Surprises,” offering a program of laughter and cheerful music to herald the summer.

According to new PSO chief executive Lee Bolton, the orchestra is adjusting to the pandemic with smaller performance sets and reduced audience capacity.

Concerts will also be shortened to around an hour, with no intermission, and the popular “Maestro Chat” pre-show will now be included in every performance.

To give more people the opportunity to enjoy live orchestral music despite reduced audience capacity, each concert will include two performances on the same day, one at 2:30 p.m. and one at 7:30 p.m.

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Seasonal passes are now on sale from the PSO office at 705-742-1992.

Single tickets for the remaining seats will go on sale in December through the Showplace online ticket office at tickets.showplace.org. Single tickets cost $ 45 for adults and $ 10 for students.

For more information on the upcoming season, visit the PSO website at thepso.org.

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