2026 Europe Tour – August 20 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh Summer 2026
From August 19 to 28, the OSM will embark on a tour of European festivals in four countries: Scotland, Poland, Denmark and Germany!
Our musicians will shine brightly on stages in Edinburgh, Warsaw, Aarhus, and Hamburg, under the inspired direction of Rafael Payare. The OSM will be joined by several distinguished soloists for this tour featuring various programs. In two concerts at the renowned Edinburgh International Festival, the OSM will perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s monumental Song of Hiawatha with the Festival Chorus. Indigenous sopranos Elisabeth Saint-Gelais and Emma Pennell will then join the Orchestra in a performance of two Canadian works by Ana Sokolović and Ian Cusson, set to libretti by Indigenous poets Michelle Sylliboy and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. Brilliant cellist Alisa Weilerstein will also team up with the OSM in a performance of Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot, which recently won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition. She will perform this same work in Aarhus, during the Orchestra’s very first visit to Denmark, and again in Hamburg, Germany. On a final stop in Warsaw, Chopin will be celebrated in two concerts: on August 23, Canadian pianist Kevin Chen, second prize winner of the most recent Chopin Competition, will join the Orchestra; then on August 24, Eric Lu, winner of the same competition, will share the stage.
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, chef
Emma Pennell, soprano
Elisabeth St-Gelais, soprano
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Program
Ana Sokolović, You can die properly now (text by Michelle Sylliboy) (5 min)
Ian Cusson, Un cri s’élève en moi (text by Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine) (10 min)
Gabriela Ortiz, Dzonot (25 min)
Intermission (20 min)
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 (40 min)
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