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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