Upcoming Concerts
RECLAIMED
Nat Baertsch Hope
Cris Dersken Round Dance
Parkdale
Controlled Burn
feat. Cris Derksen, cello
Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast
Margaret Bonds Montgomery Variations
Reclaimed speaks to home, and what happens when home leaves us. The PEISO is thrilled to welcome Cris Derksen, a Juno-nominated Indigenous cellist and composer, who is internationally renowned for their genre-defying music that bridges the traditional and contemporary. This moving program includes Derksen’s own works including Round Dance, Parkdale and Controlled Burn. Paired with Nat Bartsch’s introspective Hope and Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, which responds to the American civil rights movement, the program also features Smetana’s 'Die Moldau' from Má Vlast, a passionate tribute to national identity and personal belonging.
March 15, 2026
BLUE
April 12 2026
Maurice Ravel Bolero
Claude Debussy Fantasy for piano and orchestra
feat. Magdalena von Eccher, piano
George Gershwin An American in Paris
Omar Thomas Come Sunday
The season closes with a program of unbridled joy, centered in the rhythms and character of jazz, pop, and gospel music. Tracing a remarkable musical evolution from the late 19th to the 20th century, Blue connects Ravel’s mesmerizing Boléro to Omar Thomas’ exuberant 2018 work Come Sunday, celebrating new sounds and cultural voices in classical music. PEI’s own Magdalena von Eccher performs Debussy’s seldom-heard Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, while Gershwin’s An American in Paris—inspired by Ravel and reimagined here as perhaps a Canadian in Paris—anchors the concert with the vibrant, cosmopolitan energy of 1920s Paris.