Next concert Sunday, November 9, 2025

Our Space Odyssey – Sunday, November 9, 2025

3pm at St. Paul’s United Church, 29 Park St. W., Dundas (corner of Cross and Park Streets)

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Our Space Odyssey concert poster

Join the DVO and our concert partner Hamilton Amateur Astronomers on a musical and visual journey to the stars! Guest performers include students from the Hamilton Suzuki School of Music and HAALSA Student Soloist Award winner, violinist Sohan Mukherjee.

At 2 p.m. there will be a pre-concert youth educational experience in the Moss Davidson Room at the church.

Featuring:

  • Soprano Soloist: Sarena Paton
  • Students of The Hamilton Suzuki School of Music
  • HAALSA Student Soloist: Sohan Mukherjee

Programme:

  1. Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Fanfare (Sunrise)
  2. Franz Joseph Haydn: Il Mondo della Luna: Overture
  3. John Estacio: Wondrous Light
  4. music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Leo Robin: A Journey to a Star (Sarena Paton, soprano)
  5. John Williams: Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial)
  6. arr. Calvin Custer: Star Trek Through the Years
  7. Shinichi Suzuki: Twinkle Variations (Students of The Hamilton Suzuki School of Music)
  8. Gustav Holst, arr. Laura Thomas: Theme from Jupiter (from The Planets) (Students of The Hamilton Suzuki School of Music)
  9. Friedrich Seitz: Student’s Concerto #2 in G Major (Sohan Mukherjee, violin, HAALSA Young Musician Award winner)
  10. Leigh Harline and Ned Washington: When You Wish Upon a Star (Sarena Paton, soprano)

Pay what you like. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please remember that St. Paul’s is a fragrance-free facility.

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Student musician programs

  • Glenn Mallory Scholarship
  • DVO-HAALSA Young Musician Award
  • DVO Student Composer Competition

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Dundas Valley Orchestra

Laura M. Thomas, B.Mus., M.F.A., Music Director

The Dundas Valley Orchestra provides amateur musicians the opportunity and joy of performing orchestral music. Musicians of all ages improve their skills and share this talent by performing community concerts and free concerts at community institutions such as nursing and retirement homes.

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Partners

Orchestras Canada

A member of Orchestras Canada

Financial Supporters

   
Ontario Trillium Foundation The City of Hamilton
Ontario Trillium Foundation The City of Hamilton
Ontario Arts Council Hamilton Community Foundation
Ontario Arts Council Hamilton Community Foundation
Rotary Club of Dundas Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art
Rotary Club of Dundas Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art