April 17 - 18 , 2020
FirstOntario Concert Hall

Cancelled - HPO - Sci-Fi Spectacular

Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

With great sadness, we are announcing the cancellation of our remaining 19-20 Season Mainstage concerts. This includes 𝘚𝘤𝘪-𝘍𝘪 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 on April 17 and 18 and both performances of 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦 on May 9. The concert 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 & 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦: 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 and all other community events are postponed to later dates. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Ticket holders for April and May Mainstage concerts have received detailed information via email regarding next steps. If you have tickets for one or more of these performances and did not receive an email this morning, please contact communications@hpo.org for important details. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

We will continue to offer beautiful and inspiring musical moments through our digital channels in the weeks ahead. Our team is currently working with Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson-Schulte and HPO musicians to produce online interviews, stories and short solo performances, and we look forward to sharing this content with you in the coming months. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Thank you, sincerely, to all of our patrons for your patience and understanding during these challenging times. We recognize that the coming days and weeks are uncertain for many families and businesses in our community. We are confident our community can weather this storm together. __________________________________________________________________

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. Its continuing mission: to explore the strange, new and iconic themes of your favourite sci-fi films, including E.T., Star Wars and Star Trek. To boldly go where no HPO has gone before.

Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, Conductor

Selections include iconic themes from Star WarsE.T., Star TrekJurassic Park, Back to the Future and more!