Welcome to the home of the Orillia Silver Band. We are a community band in the traditional British Brass Band style who perform diverse concerts across the region ranging from the Orillia Jazz Festival to fundraising events to the Mariposa Folk Festival.

Welcome to our 2023-24 Concert Season!


The Orillia Silver Band presents

Where Two Worlds Meet

Kyung-A Lee, Pianist and Neil Barlow, Conductor

Join The Orillia Silver Band on Sunday, October 22 at 2:00 pm at the Orillia Opera House for a concert featuring renowned Canadian pianist Kyung-A Lee and the Orillia Silver Band.

“Where Two worlds meet” – Pianist Kyung-A Lee joins Maestro Neil Barlow and Orillia Silver Band for a one of a kind event. Two musical entities come together for an unforgettable concert. This wonderful program will include Bach, Chopin, Gershwin and Verdi. It will feature the magnificent Piano concerto of Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" and the playful "Libertango" by Astor Piazzolla with accompaniment by brass band arranged by our own Neil Barlow.

Concert tickets will be available soon at the Opera House website.

 




The Orillia Silver Band in concert at

Muskoka Concert Association

Neil Barlow, Conductor

The Orillia Silver Band's first performance of the fall will be on Sunday, October 15th at 2:00 pm at the Gravenhurst Opera House as part of the Muskoka Concert Association's 2023-24 season.

The band will be sure to delight with a special fall program chosen by our Music Director, Neil Barlow, that has a little of something for everyone. You'll hear classics like von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture and Dance Hongroise by Delibes along side of some movie music from The Lord of the Rings, and a gorgeous solo titled Flowerdale by Philip Sparke that will be played by our own Soprano Cornet soloist, Sarah Hemeon. Rounding out the program will be a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot as we play our own commissioned version of his popular Railroad Trilogy and a toe-tapping rendition of When the Saints Go Marching In

Tickets are available at the Gravenhurst Opera House and online at https://tickets.gravenhurst.ca/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=1245

 


Featured Events

Muskoka Concert Association

Muskoka Concert Association

Gravenhurst Opera House, 295 Muskoka Road South
Gravenhurst, Ontario P1P 1J1 Canada
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The Orillia Silver Band's first performance of the fall will be on Sunday, October 15th at 2:00 pm at the Gravenhurst Opera House as part of the Muskoka Concert Association's 2023-24 season. The band will be sure to delight with a special fall program chosen by our Music Director, Neil […]

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15 Oct
Where Two Worlds Meet

Where Two Worlds Meet

Orillia Opera House, 20 Mississaga St W,
Orillia, ON L3V 3A6
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Featuring Kyung-A Lee, Pianist Join The Orillia Silver Band on Sunday, October 22 at 2:00 pm at the Orillia Opera House for a concert featuring renowned Canadian pianist Kyung-A Lee and the Orillia Silver Band. “Where Two worlds meet” – Pianist Kyung-A Lee joins Maestro Neil Barlow and Orillia Silver […]

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22 Oct

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OSB Recordings

The OSB has recorded several CDs and videos for your enjoyment. You can hear our commissioned works that include Mariposa Sketches, A Life Well-Lived and the Railroad Trilogy on our 3 CDs (Mariposa Sketches, Christmas Time is Here, and Couchiching Classics). You can also follow us on our YouTube Channel (and Facebook too!!) where you can see A Life Well-Lived by Ty Watson and numerous videos recorded "at home" during the pandemic. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of a CD, just send us a note an we will give you the details.

Click here to listen to some samples.

​ What people are saying about us....

Entertainment writer John Swartz was at our May 28th "Serenade in Brass" concert in Orillia and said in SUNonline/Orillia (10 June 2023): 

"This time my seat was not in the usual part of Gord’s Room I like to be, but in the third row. I’d sit up front all the time if I could. The change in perspective allowed me to zero in on sections of the ensemble and I have to say, even though I’ve often said the group plays extremely well, my angle of listening and view put the lower brass and middle voices in the line of fire and holy cow are they ever good. I think the best example of their exceptional playing was in a transcription for band of Beethoven’s Adagio from Sonata No. 8 (Pathetique). Getting the right tone from a section and playing with the sensitivity demanded of the work is not easy to do. It only takes one player to mess it up. The whole program was good. Each tune had elements most of the audience would be familiar with. I especially liked they put Robert Redhead’s arrangement of Gord’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy in the mix. I understand it was added for obvious reasons, which meant they didn’t have a ton of time to rehearse it. Robert was in the audience too. The band has a concert in Huntsville at the Algonquin Theatre July 15 and 16. They’ll be performing with Kyung-A Lee who has been the accompanist for the Cellar Singers. She’ll be playing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the band’s arrangement by Neil Barlow. You can get tickets for that online. Otherwise we’ll have to wait until the fall to hear the band again."

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