Find Your SSO Around Town
Our musicians are teachers, collaborators, chamber musicians, soloists and musical adventurers making music all over Greater Sudbury. Here is where we will document 50+ ways to find members of the SSO in the wild during our 50th Season.
This page will be updated as more dates are confirmed!
YES Theatre’s COME FROM AWAY at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.
This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
SSO Musicians: Jack Brompton, Christina Masotti, Arianna Verbree
Since its inception in 2009, Jazz Sudbury Festival has become the premier musical event in the North. Named Best New Festival in 2012 and one of the Top 100 Festivals in Ontario, Jazz Sudbury continues to expand and quickly build its reputation as one of the finest community events in the province. Jazz Sudbury showcases talented, award-winning artists and exposes the community to the diverse and captivating genre that is jazz.
SSO Members: Jack Brompton, Blair McNally, Carolyn Otto, Allan Walsh
Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 7 pm
Mindemoya Community Centre
A choral concert offering classical, jazz, folk and more. Special guest cellist David Macdonald
SSO Member: David Macdonald
Visit our booth at the entrance to the park to hear duos, trios and quintets by musicians of the SSO, students from the Sudbury Music Conservatory, and special guests: the Sudbury Guitar Trio.
SSO Members: Various, including board members and the maestro!
Saturday September 26, 2026
4 pm
This Pioneering Latin music ensemble in Northern Ontario performed at French Fest 2026.
SSO Musicians: Jodie Bourcier, Peter Scherzinger, Tom Sonley
October 3, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Gourmet World
1984 Regent St, Sudbury, ON P3E 5S1
Catch the special Oktoberfest menu while it lasts, stock your pantry with artisanal delights from around the world, and enjoy like polka on the patio!
SSO musicians: Carolyn Otto, Michael Guillemette
Plus SSO Volunteer: Tina Guillemette
SSO Special Guest: Mel Grillanda
October 4, 2026
2 pm
Sudbury Theatre Centre
$15 at the door
A special afternoon edition of An Evening with Tessa & Petr, featuring Fixit Period and their inaugural concert, Manifesto—an intimate and playful exploration of period music brings together music by composers you may recognize, including Telemann and Corelli, alongside lesser-known works by composers such as Duval and Jones.
Created by Sudbury musicians Arianna Verbree and Milas Hewson, Fixit Period is reimagining the practice of historical performance as something fun, creative, curious, and—most importantly—accessible.
SSO members: Arianna Verbree and Milas Hewson
Friday, October 16, 2026
6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
Knox Hall
Celebrate the King of Pop’s legendary career through a collection of his greatest hits. From Billie Jean to Thriller and Man in the Mirror, rediscover Michael Jackson’s unforgettable music through the warm glow of Candlelight!
This concert experience is a tribute. It is not associated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the artist, their heirs or their official representatives.
Programme: I Want You Back, Rock With You, Human Nature, Billie Jean, Say Say Say, We Are the World, Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, Black or White, Heal the World, Remember the Time, Bad, Earth Song, They Don’t Really Care About Us and Thriller.
Performers: String Quartet; 2 violins; 1 viola; 1 cello.
SSO members: Beth Schneider-Gould, Melissa Schaak and Yu Pei
October 25, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Free entry
46 North Brewing
1275 Kelly Lake Rd #1, Sudbury, ON P3E 5P5
Beer, pretzels, games, and polka! Celebrate Oktoberfest in style at 46 North Brewing’s annual Oktoberfest. This family-friendly event has something for everyone, with food, drinks, games, activities for all ages, and the absolute best live European street band in town!
SSO musicians: Carolyn Otto & Michael Guillemette
Plus SSO Volunteers: Tina & Simon Guillemette
SSO Special Guest: Mel Grillanda
For more than 30 years, The Hilltoppers Band has specialized in the sounds of the “big band dance era”, with waltzes, Latin tempos, polkas and good old rock’n’roll. This much-loved Sudbury dance band will surely warm your senses, performing toe-tapping tunes. This event is accessible to all, with space to move and groove…and there’s plenty of free parking. Refreshments and snacks are available at the bar.
SSO Members: Charlotte Leonard, Maggie Niro, Carolyn Otto
The No Strings Attached Community Band, directed by Sandra McMillan would like to invite
everyone to “A Concert for the Poppy Fund”
Sunday, November 8th 2026, at 2:00 PM at the
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 76, 1553 Weller St, Sudbury, ON.
This concert will feature a variety of reflective music to remember those who served and
celebrate the freedoms they have so dearly bought. Come hear the marches, the dances and
the odes arranged or composed for concert band as we celebrate the 25th season of the No
Strings Attached Community Band and the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Legion Dr.
Fred Star Branch 76.
Admission is “Pay-what-you-can” with proceeds to be donated to the Poppy Fund.
https://www.nostringsattachedband.org/
SSO musicians: Ben Conroy, Eleanor Sonley
SSO Board Members: Richard Paquette, Tom Sonley
2V Unplugged and Sarah Craig are working with Concerts in Care to tour their unique genre-fusing music and three centuries of unstoppable grooves to our region’s care facilities and retirement residences.
Wikwemkoong Nursing Home – November 9
Centennial Manor – November 9
Aundeck Omni Kaning Recreaction Ctr – November 9
Espanola Seniors – November 10
Espanola Health Ctr – November 10
Walford on Park – November 11
Chartwell Meadowbrook – November 11
Huron Lodge – November 12
Hillside Park – November 12
St. Joseph’s Manor – November 12
111 Seniors – November 16
Dowling Library – November 16
SSO Members: Christina Masotti, Melissa Schaak
City of Lakes Music Society presents:
Music of the interwar years by Poulenc, Milhaud, Fauré, Satie, Tailleferre, Roussel
Performed by: Cristina Masotti, violin; Terry Storr, clarinet; Margaret Kammerman, soprano; Yoo Young Park & Dr. Charlene Biggs, piano
2PM at Church of the Epiphany
Tickets only available at the door
Candlelight concert series
Knox Hall
SSO Member: Melissa Schaak
November 25, 2026
8 pm
Lounge 390, 390 Elgin
2VUnplugged features the spirited violin duo of Cristina Masotti and Melissa Schaak, with Brittany Goldsborough on acoustic bass.
The concert provides an invigoratingly eclectic experience that deftly intertwines three centuries of hits all set within uniquely fashionable arrangements.
SSO Members: Christina Masotti, Melissa Schaak, Brittany Goldsborough
Our musicians are among the many incredible local artists and performers contributing their talents, and inspiring generosity, at the CTV Lions Children’s Christmas Telethon.
SSO Members: Cristina Masotti, Melissa Schaak, Brittany Goldsborough
This year the SYO has teamed up with the Young Sudbury Singers for their annual holiday concert!
CONCERT DATE: Saturday, Dec. 12th. at 2:00pm with
VENUE: St. Andrew’s Place.
SSO Musicians Cristina Masotti & Melissa Schaak are joining the ensemble as mentors.
Sitting side by side with an expert, and performing great music together is an inspiring and joyful way to grow as a musician.
March 21, 2027
2 pm
Location TBD
Created by Sudbury musicians Arianna Verbree and Milas Hewson, Fixit Period is reimagining the practice of historical performance as something fun, creative, curious, and—most importantly—accessible.
The second show of this exciting new ensemble will be an immersive experience bringing to life Telemann’s Days of the Week trio sonatas. These seven pieces each represent one day in the German spa town of Pyrmont. We welcome guest artist Joanna Millson on the viola.
SSO members: Arianna Verbree and Milas Hewson
May 2, 2027
2 pm
Location TBD
Fixit’s season finale is a concert of solo works. It will include the second Bach Partita for Violin, the first Telemann Fantasia for violin, Ricercar No 5 by Gabrielli for cello, and more. Come out and see us perform solo works from the Baroque era which have been meaningful to our journeys as musicians.
SSO members: Arianna Verbree and Milas Hewson
