2024 - 2025 Season Concerts
Spring Concert 2025
Join us on Saturday, May 10 at 7pm for our Spring Concert featuring some great classical music including virtuosic violin solos from members of the DYO!
Thanks to a special sponsorship from the City of Oshawa, this concert is free of charge to the public! Please come out and bring family and friends!
Location: St. George’s Memorial Anglican Church, 51 Centre St. South, Oshawa
Past Concerts
Winter Concert 2025
Selections include the vibrant Overture to the Marriage of Figaro by W.A. Mozart, and two movements from Joseph Haydn’s Surprise Symphony, #94.
We also feature two of our orchestra members as soloists. Maja Constable will perform two movements from Mozart’s third Concerto in Eb Major for French Horn, and we feature Stella Leng, playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major. This uplifting music will undoubtedly raise your spirits as we look forward to spring. We hope to see you there!
Christmas Concert 2024
Join us on Saturday, December 7 at 7pm for our Christmas Concert! We will be featuring some great classical music along with some Christmas favourites. Repertoire will include Beethoven’s 1st Symphony and Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
Heart Strings Quartet
Our Heart Strings Quartet is currently available to play at functions and events. For more information and booking, please contact John Beaton at jbeaton@dyomusic.com
I have been to two concerts performed by the DYO and have been absolutely amazed at the talent and discipline of these young people.
I sit there and close my eyes and allow the music to surround me and enter my soul. By closing my eyes I don’t pick out any one instrument or performer and simply experience. When I open my eyes again I continue to be amazed that these are young people performing challenging pieces and doing it beautifully. And they are enjoying it!
I’m hooked!!!
The wonderful thing about the DYO concerts is that you see the transition from budding young musicians through to seasoned alumni performers all in one evening’s performances. This is a community organization at its best, providing opportunities for all levels of musicians to gain experience in front of an audience. Marvelous.
In the many years I’ve been associated with the Durham Youth Orchestra as Honorary Patron, I’ve been thrilled by every concert. I’ve also been thrilled to witness the progress of kids from tiny beginners to brilliant performers who go on to elite schools such as Julliard.
The secrets to all these successes are predictable but so very difficult – great kids, a brilliant maestro in John Beaton, and immensely loving and hard-working parents and volunteers.
I extend my congratulations to all and look forward to many more great concerts.
With very best wishes,
