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The Kindred Spirits Orchestra has performed since 2009, to a great acclaim, sold-out audiences, and standing ovations at the legendary CBC Glenn Gould Studio in downtown Toronto. As of the 2011, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra has also established a 6-concert subscription series at the Flato Markham Theatre, in addition to 3 community-outreach and 2 educational concerts. Led by the charismatic Maestro Kristian Alexander, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra is enjoying an enormous popularity among York Region's residents and continues to attract avid audiences across the Greater Toronto Area.

The Kindred Spirits Orchestra performs a wide range of compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and many others. Ardent supporter of contemporary music, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra created, also in 2011, Markham Contemporary Music Festival, an annual event that has brought to life great pieces of the 20th century by Lutoslavsky, Stravisnky, Philip Glass, Honegger as well as by illustrious Canadian composers such as Garry Kulesha, Brian Current, Larysa Kuzmenko, Daniel Friedman, Kevin Lau, and Constantine Caravassilis. During the past few years alone, the orchestra has regularly worked with internationally renowned soloists such as pianists Christina Quilico, James Parker and Maxim Bernard, violinists Jacques Israelievitch, Joelle Kee and Marc Djokic, cellist Rachel Mercer, soprano Rebecca Whelan, and tenor Keith Klassen, among many others.

Cette application est pour le premier Markham New Music Festival. Le festival mettra en vedette la musique de chambre et des concerts symphoniques, ainsi que d'autres événements et activités au cours du week-end. Festival comprendra (1) une série de trois concerts (dont une en plein air au Parc Unionville), présentant des compositions de compositeurs canadiens ainsi que Chostakovitch, Stravinsky, Boulez, Satie, Berg, Bernstein, Gershwin, etc; (2) des conférences en anglais et en français à l'ancienne Bibliothèque Centre Unionville; (3) un atelier d'une journée sur les techniques contemporaines de composition; (4) la projection d'un documentaire, et (5) des discussion pré-et post-concert. En outre, la programmation du Festival sera enrichie par la possibilité pour le public de visiter (i) la vaste collection d'instruments de musique du monde à la Galerie de l'Académie Internationale de Musique, et (ii) le Musée de Markham et sa collection d'objets liés à la musique.