This is a list of concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between Jan. 8 and Jan. 14, 2024. For more of what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

COC Vocal Series/Sara Schabas/Isabelle David

Tuesday Jan. 9 at 12 p.m. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre. Free

Sara Schabas is the soprano and Isabelle David the pianist in a program including songs by Viennese composers (Berg, Schoenberg, Alma Mahler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Viktor Ullmann) and the Canadian premiere of in a dark blue night, a cycle by the American composer Alex Weiser featuring Yiddish poetry written by immigrants to New York City. Narration by musicologist Robin Elliott. Info here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Daniil Trifonov/Gustavo Gimeno

Wednesday Jan. 10 at 8 p.m., Thursday Jan. 11 at 8 p.m., Saturday Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall. $48+

The TSO starts 2024 with the New York-based Russian virtuoso Daniil Trifonov in Brahms’s mighty Piano Concerto No. 1. Other items on the Gimeno-conducted program are George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 2 of 1993 and Witold Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra of 1954. Info here.

U of T/Canadian Women’s Brass Collective

Sunday Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. Walter Hall. Free.

The Canadian Women’s Brass Collective concludes a four-day symposium with a free blowout concert featuring dozens of players in works by Alice Gomez, Cait Nishimura, Florence Price and Elizabeth Raum. Info here.

RCM/Angela Hewitt

Sunday Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. Koerner Hall. $50+

This recital by the London-based Canadian is listed as a sellout but optimists can always try. Preludes and fugues by Bach, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Barber plus Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 11. 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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