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On a cold and wintry afternoon, warm up with the whole family to the cheerful sounds of seasonal favourites like Sleigh Ride and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy as well as music from the film Polar Express and a happy medley of everyone's favourite Christmas songs. The whole family will love singing along with the ESO as they perform Santa Claus is Coming To Town, Silent Night, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and other Yuletide hits. Special guests Santa Claus and Mister Grinch are sure to surprise and delight in these special matinée performances.

We are collecting donations for the Edmonton Food Bank at all December performances. Please remember to bring your non-perishable food items!

Ticket Information

$30 Adult
$15 Child
Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

This program will also be performed at 3:30 pm on December 19.

Thank you to our media sponsor: 

Our Resident Conductor Lucas Waldin appears in part thanks to the support of Enbridge.
 

Artist Info

Lucas Waldin, conductor

The 2010/11 season marks the second for Lucas Waldin as Resident Conductor for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This mentorship position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts and Enbridge. Mr. Waldin graduated in 2006 from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a Masters in Conducting. He has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-Sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart. Lucas was assistant conductor of the contemporary orchestra RED (Cleveland), director of the Cleveland Bach Consort, and a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival. In 2007, he was invited to conduct the Miami-based New World Symphony Orchestra in masterclasses given by Michael Tilson Thomas. In Lucerne in 2009, he also participated in a masterclass led by Bernard Haitink, with the Lucerne Festival Strings.

A native of Toronto, Lucas Waldin has spent summers studying in Europe, including studies at the International Music Academy in Leipzig, the Bayreuth Youth Orchestra, and the Acanthes New Music Festival in France. On this continent, he has studied under the renowned Bach conductor Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, and has attended conducting masterclasses with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. Mr. Waldin received a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from the Cleveland Institute, studying with Joshua Smith.

The ESO would like to thank Enbridge Pipelines for their commitment to the arts and this program by matching the funding provided by the Canada Council for the Arts.

John Ullyatt, actor

Cantilon Chamber Choir

The Cantilon Chamber Choir is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading children’s choral ensembles. Singers in this ensemble, ages 10-19, demonstrate a high level of commitment to choral singing and to sharing this art with audiences at home and around the world. The summer of 2011 will see the choir return Wales to compete in the 65th International Eisteddfodd in Llangollen. Since its inception, the Cantilon Chamber Choir has been honoured with many awards in national and international competitions. The fall of 2007 was particularly busy for the choir as they represented Canada in the European Broadcasting Union’s Let The Peoples Sing competition, receiving second prize, followed a few months later by a trip to Tolosa, Spain to compete in the prestigious Tolosa International Choral Competition where they placed third in the Children’s Choir category.  The choir has traveled extensively, also competing successfully in the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition in Debrecen, Hungary in July 2006 (1st, Children’s Choirs; 1st Youth Choirs; Best Performance of a Hungarian Work; Purest Intonation and Interpretation) and the 57th International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales in 2003 (2nd, Senior Children; 3rd Chamber Choirs and Folk Song Choirs).