The announcement comes less than a month before the start of the orchestra’s 60th season. There are five concert scheduled for 2013-14, starting with a substantial programme featuring Toronto Symphony Orchestra associate conductor Shalom Bard on Oct. 20.
Orchestra Toronto is, like most of the city’s better community groups, made up of a combination of professional and amateur players. You can find out all about the organization here.
Irish-born, Toronto-based Mallon is a violinist and conductor who has recorded an impressive collection of about four-dozen albums of Baroque and Classical-era music for the Naxos label with two ensembles he founded, one using modern instruments that has never given a live concert in Toronto as far as I know, and the Aradia Ensemble, which uses period instruments.
Mallon is also currently the music director of Thirteen Strings in Ottawa and conductor of the West Side Chamber Orchestra in New York City.
The conductor has just announced Aradia Ensemble season here, it includes a collaboration with Voicebox (Opera in Concert) in a performance of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Hippolyte et Aricie at the Jane Mallett Theatre on Feb. 24 (details here).
John Terauds