This is a list of concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between April 3 and April 9, 2023. For more of what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

U of T/Contemporary Music Ensemble

Tuesday April 4 at 7:30 p.m. Walter Hall. $30 adult, $20 senior, $10 student

The student ensemble under Wallace Halladay offers works by four modern superstars: Arvo Pärt (Fratres), György Ligeti (Melodien), Thomas Adès (Living Toys Op. 9) and John Adams (Son of a Chamber Symphony). Info here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Mahler 5/John Storgårds

Thursday April 6 at 8 p.m. (repeats Saturday April 8 at 8 p.m.). Roy Thomson Hall. $68+

John Storgårds, principal guest conductor of the NACO, leads the TSO in what is probably — post-Tár — Mahler’s best-known symphony. In the first half, Leila Josefowicz gives the Canadian premiere of the 2016 Violin Concerto of the Scottish composer Helen Grime. Also on the program: the North American premiere of the meditative Adagio Religioso by Storgårds’s fellow Finn, Joonas Kokkonen (1921-96). Info here.

Opera Atelier/The Resurrection

Thursday April 6 at 7:30 p.m. (repeats Saturday April 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday April 9 at 2:30 p.m.). Koerner Hall. $49+

Opera Atelier has chosen a fitting time of year to stage Handel’s 1708 oratorio La Resurrezione. David Fallis conducts Tafelmusik and a cast of reliable Atelier regulars. Marshall Pynkoski directs. Italian words with surtitles. Info here.

Handel/Brockes Passion

Friday April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Metropolitan United Church. $30 in person, $15 online (live & on demand)

Metropolitan United Church observes Good Friday with a presentation of Handel’s rarely-heard setting of a 1712 Passion text by the German poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Jonathan Oldengarm conducts soloists, chorus and a period orchestra. Info here.

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Arthur Kaptainis was classical music critic of the Montreal Gazette from 1986 to 2022 and wrote for the National Post from 2010 to 2016. His articles appear in Classical Voice North America and Gramophone as well as Ludwig Van. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the University of Toronto. He is president of the Music Critics Association of North America.

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