SERENATA MUSIC WELCOMES EVERYONE BACK TO THE 2025-26 CONCERT SEASON

We are pleased to continue our collaboration with both the London Symphonia and the Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Canadian pianist David Jalbert opens the season with London Symphonia with the Ravel piano concerto in G major. Londoners have had the privilege of hearing David on our stage and in London many times. Each concert has been unique as he expands his repertoire. Maestra Cosette Justo Vldes will make her Symphonia debut conducting Mozart's Symphony no.39, Holme's La Nuit et l"Amour, andPrat's Canta el Carretero Caunda Dan Las Seis.
In November The Musicians from Marlboro will return for the fourth time to perform at Western's von Kuster hall.
London's own Lara St. John will join London Symphonia in January with conductor Nicolas Ellis in a concert titled The Ancient Flame. She will perform Dorman's Violin concerto No.2, Nigunim.
Our final presentation will be The Brahms Effect. Clarinetist Graham Lord and the London Symphonia String Quartet, Joe Lanza, violin, Emile Pare, violin, Kelvin Enns, viola, and Ben Bolt-Martin will perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and other pieces. Tom Allen will provide the commentary.
We look forward to seeing you during this exciting season.
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The Serenata Music schedule for 2025-26 is as follows:

Saturday, October 4, 2025. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church,
London Symphonia, Mozart, Ravel, and beyond. David Jalbert, piano.
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Saturday, January 17, 2026, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia, The Ancient Flame. Lara St. John, violin.
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Saturday, April 18, 2026. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Brahms Effect with Tom Allen, narrator, Graham Lord, clarinet.

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OCTOBER 4 ARTISTS
Mr. Jalbert performs regularly as a soloist and recitalist in Canada and across the globe. His solo recordings of the Goldberg Variations, the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, of American, French and Russian piano music have all garnered praise internationally in venues ranging from Fanfare to France-Culture. As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras such as OSM, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, the National Symphony of Ireland, and has performed many times with Orchestre Metropolitain and its maestro Yannick Nezet Seguin. Equally prolific as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Charles Richard Hamelin, Joel Quarrington, James Campbell and Rachel Barton Pine, and has recorded with Pentaedre, cellist Denise Djokic, and with his trio Triple Forte (with Jasper Wood and Yegor Dyachkov). Mr. Jalbert has won six times at the Prix Opus and is a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Virginia Parker Prize. He holds degrees from the Juilliard School, the Glenn Gould School, Universite de Montreal and Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, and is now a Professor of Piano at the University of Ottawa and a member of the faculty at the Orford Music Academy.
Cosette
Justo Valdes with her incisive presence on the podium, emotive in her conducting without being in any sense showy (Edmonton Journal), Cuban-born and raised conductor Cosette Justo Valdes has garnered acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and is a rising star on the world's concert stage. She is presently Resident Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (Canada) where she has won the hearts of musicians and audience alike. Recent highlights include a mindblowing (Ottawa Citizen) collaboration with Esperanza Spalding and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and a celebrated Cosi fan tutte with the Edmonton Opera, conducted from the harpsichord.
Cosette was recently chosen as finalist in the searches for Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra (US) and the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra (Canada). She has also been nominated for the Heinz Unger Award 2022 by the Ontario Arts Council in Canada.

CONCERT NEWS LISTINGS.
Don Wright faculty of Music listings are at https://music.uwo.ca/events/index.html.
London Jazz Hub https://www.ldnontjazz.ca/concert-series
Aeolian Hall https://aeolianhall.ca/events/.

2025

October

Saturday, October 4. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. Mozart, Ravel, and beyond. David Jalbert, piano.
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Saturday, October 4. 7:30 P.M. St James Westminster Church. London Pro Musica. Oliver Whitehead, Mass for all Creatures.
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Thursday, October 9, 12:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. New Orford String Quartet, Michael Kim, piano.
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Saturday, October 18, von Kuster hall, Western. Parsons and Poole Concert. Sir Stephen Hough, piano.
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Sunday, October 19, 3 P.M. Metropolitan Unite Church. Jeffrey concerts. Academia de Dissonanti and Elinor Frey, cello, Joseph Lanza, violin, and Melisandre Sun
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Sunday, October 26, 3 P.M. Dundas Centre United Church. London Community Orchestra. From Salzburg to Paris. Joshua Lee, violin.
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Friday, October 31,7:30 P.M. St. James Westminster Church. Brass Roots. Night of the Living Brass.
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November

Sunday, November 2, 2 P.M. A.B.Lucas SS. London Concert Band. Made in Canada.
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Thursday, November 6. 7 P.M. Museum London. Magisterial at the Museum. Masterworks:Piano Quartets.
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Saturday, November 8, 3 P.M. St. John Anglican Church. Chor Amica. Grant Us Peace’
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Friday, November 14, 12:30 to 2:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western.The Musicians from Marlboro.
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Saturday, November 15, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. Payadora-The Soul of Tango. Payadora Tango Ensemble, Scott Good, conductor.
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Sunday, November 23. 3 P.M. St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church. Jeffrey Concerts. Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists.
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Friday, November 28, 12:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. James Campbell, clarion, Leopoldo Erice, piano.
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Saturday, November 29, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Youth Symphony.
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Saturday, November 29, 7:30 P.M. St. James Westminster Church. London Pro Musica.
Texture: A cappella concert of works by Palestrina and Bruckner.
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Sunday, November 30. Aeolian Hall. Aeolian Pride Chorus. Fall concert.
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December

Saturday, December 3. 2:30 P.M. Holy Family Church. Chorn Amica, A Christmas Carol.
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Monday, December 5. 7:30 P.M. First St. Andrewes United Church. London Pro Musica. Sing-along Messiah.
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Saturday, December 6, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Sounds of Home. Alexander Kane, Musical Director, London gospel Collective.
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Saturday. December 7, 3 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. Early Music Studio with Tafelmusik members.
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Sunday, December 7, 2:30 P.M. Colborne Street United Church.
Junior Amabile singers and Amabile Da Copa Choir. winter with You.
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Saturday, December 13, 7:30 P.M. First St. Andrew’s United Church. Amabile Youth singers Saba and Priva: Amabile Womens Choir. Traditional.
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Sunday, December 14, 3 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. Kammerchor. Handel’s mMessiah.
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Sunday, December 14, 3 P.M. Dundas Centre United Church. London Community Orchestra. Young Soloists Concert.
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Sunday, December 14. 4 P.M. Saint James Westminster Church. Brass Roots. Christmas Twilight in Brass.
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Sunday, December 14, 2 P.M. A.B.Lucas SS. London Concert Band. Comfort and Joy.
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Monday, December 15. 7:30 P.M. St. James Westminster Anglican Church. London Pro Musica. Handel’s Messiah.
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2026

January

Sunday, January 11. 3 P.M. Museum London. Magisterra at the Museum. Holocaust: Survived, Silenced, Remembered.
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Saturday, January 17, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Ancient Flame. Lara St. John, violin.
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Thursday, January 9. 7:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. Paul Lewis, piano.
March
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Wednesday, January 15. 8 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. Fred Pattison Piano 2025 Award Winner Recital. Sophie Huang, piano.
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Thursday, January 16. 12:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. Anagnoson and Kinton piano duo.
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February

Saturday, February 7, 7:30 P.M. Saint James /Westminster Church. Brass Roots. Summon the Heroes.
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Sunday, February 8. 3 P.M. Wolf Performance Hall. Jeffrey Concerts. Jaques Forestier, violin, Arthur Rowe, piano.
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Saturday, February 14. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. Love and romance with Denise Pelley. Denise Pelley, vocalist, Roy Lewis poet and narrator, Scott Good, conductor.
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Saturday, February 28, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Youth Symphony.
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March

Sunday, March 1, 3 P.M. Dundas Centre United Church. London Community Orchestra. Romantic Echoes. Brian Donahue horn.
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Thursday, March 5. 7 P.M. Museum London. Magisterra at the Museum. Masterworks:Piano Trios.
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Thursday-Friday March 5-6. 7:30 P.M.
Saturday-Sunday March 6-7. 2 P.M. Paul Davenport Theatre, Western. Opera Western. Sweeney Todd, the Demon of Fleet Street.
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Saturday, March 7, 3 P.M. St. Paul’s Cathedral. Chor Amica. Light Eternal.
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Saturday, March 7. 7 P.M. New St.James Presbyterian Church. Kammerchor. Simply Five.
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Sunday, March 8, 3:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. An Enchanting Afternoon: Peter and the Wolf.
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Sunday, March 8, 2:30 and 7:00 P.M. First St. Andrew’s United Church. Amabile Chioirs. Shine the Light-The 2026 Amabile Festival. The Music of Rev. Raymond Wise.
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Sunday, March 8. 8P.M. Sir Frederick Banting SS. London Concert Band. Entente Cordial.
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Friday , March 13. 12:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. Thompson Egbo-Egbo Trio.
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Friday, March 13. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. Jeffrey Concerts. Poises Quartet.
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Friday, March 20. 12:30 P.M. von Kuster Hall, Western. James Westman, baritone, Angela Park, piano.
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April
Wednesday, April 8. 7:30 P.M. Wolf Performance hall. Jeffrey Concerts. James Campbell, clarinet, Cameron Crozman, cello, Meagan Milatz, piano.
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Wednesday, April 8, 7 P.M. Museum London. Magisterra at the Museum: Tales in Three
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Saturday, April 18, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. The Brahms Effect with Tom Allen, narrator, Graham Lord, clarinet.
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Saturday, April 25, 7 P.M. Metripolitan United Church. Kammerchor. Vivaldi meets Bach.
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May

Saturday, May 2, 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Symphonia. Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Marsh. Laura Chambers, flute, Tania Miller, conductor.
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Sunday, May 3. 3 P.M. From Triumph to Tragedy. Leslie Kinton, piano.
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Sunday, May 3. Aeolian Hall. Aeolian Pride Chorus. Spring concert.
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Monday’s May 4. 7:30 P.M. Wolf Performance Hall. Jeffrey Concerts. James Ehnes, violin, Andrew Armstrong, piano.
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Saturday, May 9. 7:30 P.M. Metropolitan United Church. London Youth Symphony.
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Saturday, May 23. 7:30 P.M. Saint James /Westminster Church. Brass Roots. The Beat Goes On. Tribute to Bob Hughes.
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Sunday, May 24. 2 P.M. A.B.Lucas SS. London Concert Band. LCB Plays Favourites. Guest artist Paul Langille.
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June

Thursday, June 18, 7 P.M. Museum London. Magisterial at the Museum:South American Getaway.
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Monday, June 29 7 P.M. Wolf Performance Hall. Sounds of Swing Band.
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