KITCHENER, ON — The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra announces it will play again, more than a year after declaring bankruptcy.

A newly elected board of directors says a proposal to the Symphony’s creditors recently received unanimous support and was approved by the Ontario Superior Court.

The board says the southwestern Ontario-based orchestra will return to the stage Nov. 16 with “On Remembrance and Hope” and hold holiday concerts Dec. 20 and 21.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra canceled the 2023-2024 season just days before it began last September and filed for bankruptcy two days later.

At the time, the board discussed the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The orchestra was founded in 1945.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published October 30, 2024.

The Canadian Press