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Music helps to strengthen relationships and connect individuals. We produce professional concerts of music that otherwise would seldom be heard in our area, becoming Northwestern Ontario’s Baroque and Early Music specialists. Our repertoire now covers many eras of classical music – Baroque and Beyond!
Our mission is to educate as well as to entertain, to improve the quality of life in our community, to present concerts accessible to all, and to enlarge the city’s audience for classical music.
Learn more about the music, composers, and artists featured in our concerts by reading our Artistic Director’s Blog
In 2025 Consortium Aurora Borealis and the rest of the musical world mark the 275th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. This towering figure of the Baroque surpassed all others during this period, and was venerated throughout history as one of the greatest composers of all time. Composer Richard Wagner called Bach “the most stupendous miracle in all music!”
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We’re delighted to welcome Peter Shackleton, well known to Thunder Bay audiences as the TBSO’s Principal Clarinettist since 1988. He appears as our guest soloist in an exquisite concert of Classic and Romantic chamber music, and is joined by our four core string players. They’ll perform two quintets for clarinet and strings, beloved staples of that instrument’s repertoire, and both composed for specific virtuoso clarinettists. Mozart’s dates from the same year as the French Revolution; it’s marvellously melodic, mellow, and at times mirthful.
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Consortium Aurora Borealis is back in action and is excited to present ‘A Cello Celebration’ for your enjoyment, a special concert with an all-Italian theme. Cellists Peter Cosbey and Marc Palmquist join forces to charm you as they open our 47th concert season, performing duos and solos by 18th-century Italian composers Luigi Boccherini, Salvatore Lanzetti, Giovanni Battista Cirri, and Joseph Dall’Abaco, who were all remarkable virtuoso cellists in their day. Both virtuosic and lyrical elements will be explored, as the unique characters and timbres of the cello are exploited. We’ll also include music by famed composers Vivaldi and Viotti, as we move stylistically through the Baroque to the Classical period.
