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The Royal Conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor St W
Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
(416) 408-2825
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- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Welcomes Six Rising Conductors To Take The Podium - March 26, 2024
- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces Community Choral Workshops - January 30, 2024
- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces New 23/24 Season Community Engagement Team Activities - September 27, 2023
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About
The Royal Conservatory offers an unsurpassed breadth of music appreciation courses taught by experts in a welcoming and collegial environment. Build new contexts for your musical experiences as you deepen your understanding and enjoyment of music across genres and historical periods, from the rich traditions of the past to the exciting frontiers of the present. With courses offered in the morning, afternoon, and evening, you’re sure to find something in our selection of offerings that sparks your curiosity and fits your schedule!
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Events
Opera Overtures
Mondays, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Mar. 21 to Apr. 18
Instructor: Kyra Millan
Course fee: $185
Learn about the history, the music, and the sublime and sublimely ridiculous elements that make opera so fabulous in this interactive course.
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Cinematic Music: How We Hear Film
Wednesdays, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Mar. 23 to Apr. 27
Instructor: Leslie Barcza
Course fee: $225
Examine what music contributes to a movie, with a focus on the practices of Hollywood producers in the 20th century, beginning with silent films and moving through the classic scores of the 1930s, to our own time.
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Opera in the City (Spring)
Tuesdays, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Mar. 29 to May 3
Instructor: Eric Domville
Course fee: $295
Join us for this illuminating journey into operatic history and enhance your experience of the operas scheduled to be performed in Toronto this spring.
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Discover Jazz
Fridays, 10:00am-12:00pm
Apr. 1 to May 6
Instructor: Mark Micklethwaite
Course fee: $295
Through lectures, discussion and performance, you’ll come away from this course with strategies to enjoy jazz in a deeper and more meaningful way.
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The Grand Tour: 1608
Tuesdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
Apr. 5 to Apr. 26
Instructor: Katherine Hill
Course fee: $195
Using Thomas Coryat’s 1608 guidebook and accounts of music on his travels, we will follow in his footsteps, investigating the colourful and sumptuous instrumental and vocal music he would have heard in homes, courts, cities and churches on his way to Venice and back again.
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The Schumann Circle
Wednesdays, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Apr. 6 to Apr. 27
Instructor: Helen Jacob-Stein
Course fee: $150
Explore Romantic chamber music of 19th-Century Germany with members of our RCM community, featuring in-class performances of violin, cello and piano.
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F. J. Haydn: The Creation
Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Apr. 19 to Apr. 26
Instructor: Rick Phillips
Course fee: $99
Explore The Creation, Haydn’s powerful musical depiction of the creation of the world, from nothing through sun, moon, plants and animals, to Adam and Eve.
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Music Through the Ages: 1880-1920
Thursdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
Apr. 21 to May 19
Instructor: Clayton Scott
Course fee: $250
Delve into the music from the end of the 19th century: Post-Romanticism and then Expressionism in Germany, Impressionism in France, and Primitivism in Russia.
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Outside-the-Box Baroque
Wednesdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
May 11 to June 15
Instructor: Alison Melville
Course fee: $295
Through listening, lecture, discussion and the use of images, we’ll explore the music, composers and musical life of Baroque Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Scotland, Scandinavia and Russia.
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Festival Preview: TD Toronto Jazz Festival
Fridays, 10:30am-12:00pm
May 27 to Jun. 10
Instructor: James Stager
Course fee: $110
Join Jamie Stager as he explores the music and musicians coming to Toronto this summer for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival! This course includes engaging lectures and a special in-class discussion with Josh Grossman, Artistic Director of Toronto Downtown Jazz.
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Festival Preview: Toronto Summer Music Festival
Wednesdays, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Jun. 22 to Jul. 13
Instructor: Rick Phillips
Course fee: $189
Delve into the topic and music of this summer’s TSMF, with background, history and insights into the composers, music and musicians, enhancing your overall 2016 TSMF experience. Also featured will be an interview and informal in-class Q and A with TSMF Artistic Director, Douglas McNabney.
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Elgar: Musical Voice of the Edwardian Era
Tuesdays, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Jul. 19 & Jul. 26
Instructor: Rick Phillips
Course fee: $99
In his day, some found Elgar to be the voice of a way of life then past. But Elgar’s music still expresses human situations and emotions that are as valid today as they were 100 years ago.
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* A 10% discount will be applied automatically at checkout for students who are enrolled concurrently in any of the following Royal Conservatory School music classes: Individual Instruction, Group Classes, Learn to Play/Sing, Small Ensemble, Theory and History.
Photo credits: Orchestral Music of Brahms: Hector Fantini; Opera Overtures: Bo Huang; Cinematic Music: Holger Ellgaard; Opera in the City: DuPage Opera Theatre, Cebula; Discover Jazz: BBC Big Band, Burmingham, England; The Grand Tour: The Musicians by Caravaggio at Metropolitan Museum of Art by Yair Haklai (own work); The Schumann Cirle: Chamber Music Socity artists Erin Keefe, Richard O’Neill, and Andreas Brantelid, photo by Tristan Cook; Elgar: Herbert Lambert.
- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Welcomes Six Rising Conductors To Take The Podium - March 26, 2024
- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces Community Choral Workshops - January 30, 2024
- WHO’S WHO | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces New 23/24 Season Community Engagement Team Activities - September 27, 2023
