Our Vision
A world where the power of music enriches us all, and reveals that diversity nurtures creativity.
Our Mission
The Gallery Players of Niagara’s mission is to enrich our world through intimate and diverse presentations of chamber music, created to illuminate the art, enlighten our audiences, and share the sheer joy of music making.
Our Values
We deliver Creative performances.
We feed Curious minds.
We promote Diverse voices
We foster Excellence by setting and achieving ambitious goals
We embrace Inclusiveness
We cultivate Resilience by adapting quickly
Since its founding in 1994, The Gallery Players of Niagara has become one of Niagara’s most prominent presenters of classical chamber music. Each season we offer a diverse array of chamber music, from Vivaldi to Brahms to improvised music for silent movies. Showcasing Canadian performers, we present baroque repertoire on period instruments, commission and perform new Canadian works, and explore the broad depth of repertoire in between. Concerts are frequently enhanced by talks from scholars or musicians.
The shared experience of enjoying live concerts enriches individuals and strengthens communities. Therefore, we are committed to working toward a more just, equitable society, embodying our belief that access to art is a human right. In 2022, our Open Doors initiative was created to support barrier-free access to our concerts.
Open Doors helps ensure that the Niagara community is able to experience exhilarating, engaging, moving, truly glorious music, irrespective of means. We now offer “Pay-What-You-Choose” tickets on the day of each performance.
Encouraged by new faces and positive responses, we are expanding our Open Doors commitment, introducing Adaptive Performances, concerts sensitive to and welcoming of neurodiverse audiences and the differently-abled. Future plans include seniors outreach and community performances.
Featured musicians include professionals from the Niagara Symphony, Brock University, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and many smaller organizations in the Golden Horseshoe.
The Gallery Players serves as an umbrella for two chamber ensembles, the Eybler Quartet, and Glissandi, and produces deeply researched recordings. Renowned for superb musicianship and scholarship, several recordings have received rave reviews from national and international press.
