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Kingston Community Strings

The Kingston Community Strings is a 50-member amateur string orchestra. This group plays a variety of string orchestral repertoire and performs concerts at va

Membership in the ensemble is available without audition to players at any level of development.

05/16/2026

Coming soon. KCS season finale -

T.V. Themes for Strings (and more!)

Friday May 22, 7:00 p.m.
Christ Church Cataraqui
Should be fun 📺
Tickets available at the door 🎟️

03/15/2026

This March we throwback to five years ago when everyone stayed at home, the KCS season was online, and our rehearsals were on Zoom 🎧💻🎶
Our performance that year was this collaborative video of Barcarolle, Belle Nuit (and another with KYO).
It was a unique time for the world for sure but it is great to have these video memories 🎥

03/09/2026

We had an amazing concert on Friday with the Battel Duo🎶
Thank you to our special guests Emma and Sophia (Battel); and thank you to guest Concertmaster Grace for joining us from Kingston Youth Orchestra
Thank you to everyone who came out to our sold out show 👏
Here are some photos from our dress rehearsal 📸

02/28/2026

Less that one week until our next performance.

ART SONGS AND OPERA CLASSICS,
Friday March 6, 7 p.m., Christ Church Cataraqui
This year KCS and TGIF Opera present
The Battel Duo (Emma, soprano & Sophia cello)

Sung 👩‍🎤Opera Classics include:
Dido's Lament - Purcell (Dido & Aeneas)
Porgi amor - Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro)
Habanera - Bizet (Carmen)
Duets: Parigi, o cara (La Traviata) and the Flower Duet (Lakme)

Instrumental 🎻Opera classics include:
Brindisi - Verdi (La Traviata)
Ballet Music - Gluck (Orfeo & Euridice)
Barcarole (Belle nuit) - Offenbach (Tales of Hoffman)

Yes those sure are classics!! 🏛️

Art Songs 🎨 by the Duo include amazing works for soprano and cello by Tavener and Dies.

Hope to see you there!

Kingston Symphony Association

02/20/2026

ART SONGS AND OPERA CLASSICS
Friday March 6, 7:00 p.m. Christ Church Cataraqui

Coming soon for KCS we present our annual T.G.I.F. opera concert. This year we are joined by The Battel Duo 🎶🎻👩‍🎤
Sisters Emma (soprano) and Sophia (cello) both graduates of McGill music will return to their hometown for this performance.
The Duo will present soprano and cello duets by John Tavener and David Dies and will join KCS to perform Dido's Lament, the Flower Duet from Lakme plus much much more.

This will be a fantastic concert and a big event for our 2025-26 season 🙂

11/24/2025

It was great to collaborate with some Queen’s Music students at our Haydn Gossec concert. Sarah and Leah helped make Haydn Sym. 78 come to life. Bravo 👏

11/22/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to our concert last night 🙏
🎻🎻HAYDN GOSSEC 🎻🎻
At the concert we performed
Haydn Symphony 78 in c
This symphony has no nickname so we had a nickname challenge 😎
- here are the possible names we came up with:

The Dance
The Storm
The Rush Hour
The Hide and Go Seek
The Bird

Perhaps one of these names will stick?!?
Which one do you like?

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Kingston, ON

Website

https://www.kingstonsymphony.ca/about/kingston-community-strings

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