Mooredale Concerts has announced their 2025-26 season of Sunday afternoon classical chamber music concerts. The season features the usual mix of both top tier professionals and up and coming young Canadian and international artists.
Mooredale Concerts was created in 1988 with a mandate of using classical music performance to entertain the whole family. Their chamber concerts often include commentaries and information on the composers and their relationships.
Along with their regular concert series, Mooredale offers the Music & Truffles series designed for young people from ages six to 11, as well as adults who are new to the classical music genre.
Mooredale also offers a Youth Orchestras program.
Mooredale Concerts 2025-26 Season
Cello Fellos (September 28, 2025)
Leo Disselhorst und Bryan Cheng are good friends — hence the duo’s name — and have been performing together since 2020. They’ve performed at the Heidelberger Frühling and Beethovenfest Bonn festivals, and have given recitals in the Kammermusiksaal of the Berliner Philharmonie, Tonali-Saal in Hamburg, among others.
Canadian-born, Bryan Cheng is now based in Berlin. He launched his career with wins at the Queen Elisabeth, Concours de Genève, and Paulo competitions, and has become a sought after soloist across Europe. He is currently Appointed Artist-in-Residence of the “Banatul” Philharmonic Orchestra of Timisoara (Romania).
German cellist Leonard Disselhorst took his first lessons on the instrument at the age of seven. He went on to study at the Hanover Conservatory’s Institute for Early Training, followed by the University of Music Karlsruhe and at the Berlin University of the Arts — UdK Berlin.
Leonard has taken home prizes from the International Hindemith Competition, the Domenico Gabrielli Competition, several times at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin, as well as winner of the renowned Concours de Genève.
They bring a program titled Global Grooves that includes Balkan folk tunes, jazz, and Western classical music.
Busch Trio (November 2, 2025)
Mathieu van Bellen, Ori Epstein and Omri Epstein met in London during their studies, and became friends and musical collaborators. Their name comes from both Mathieu’s violin, called the ‘ex-Adolf Busch’ G.B. Guadagnini, and from Adolf Busch himself. Adolf Busch (1891 – 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer, who’d go on to found chamber orchestras, the Lucerne Festival, and the Vienna Konzertverein Quartet, along with his own Busch Quartet.
Founded in 2012, the Busch Trio hve performed at major festivals and on prominent stages throughout Europe.
Their program includes Haydn, Schumann, and Beethoven.
David Jalbert, piano (February 22, 2026)
Canadian concert pianist David Jalbert is a five-time JUNO Award nominee, and has performed across the globe as a soloist and recitalist. He’s performed with the OSM, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, the National Symphony of Ireland, and on several occasions with Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
David is also a dedicated chamber musician, and has collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Joel Quarrington, James Campbell and Rachel Barton Pine.
His recordings of the Goldberg Variations, the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, among many other works, have garnered acclaim internationally.
Jalbert is a professor at the University of Ottawa, and a member of the faculty at the Orford Music Academy.
He will perform an all-Prokofiev program from his recent two-volume album on the ATMA Classique label.
Eric Abramovitz, clarinet x 4 TSO Strings (March 22, 2026)
Eric Abramovitz, a Montreal native, earned his Bachelor’s Degree at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Subsequently, he pursued graduate studies at the University of Southern California.
Eric won First Prize at the OSM Standard Life Competition in 2011, and was a Sylva Gelber Career Grant recipient in 2016, touring throughout Japan with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. He’s performed with the McGill and USC Symphonies, l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
He joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2018 as Associate Principal and E-flat Clarinet, and was appointed Principal Clarinet in 2021. Eric is also an adventurous chamber musician, and a founder of Toronto klezmer/Yiddish music ensemble Schmaltz & Pepper.
Eric has created a program for clarinet and string quartet, featuring four of his TSO colleagues: Luri Lee, Kun Yan, violins, Rémi Pelletier, viola, and Lucia Ticho, cello. On the program are works by Gershwin and Price, along with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, K. 581.
Kerson Leong, violin (May 3, 2026)
Kerson Leong’s career took off after his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010. He was artist-in-residence with the Orchestre Métropolitain during the 18/19 season as Yannick Nézet-Séguin handpicked choice.
Leong has gone on to perform on some of the world’s most prominent stages, including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre and the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He has made appearances at the Verbier Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Flâneries musicales de Reims, and Bergen International Festival, among others.
As a soloist, he’s performed with the Royal, Oslo, Kansai, and Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, the Seattle, Singapore, Montreal, Bilkent, Toronto, Vancouver, and Wuppertal Symphony Orchestras, among others. He’s toured Sweden and the Midwestern US. After performing the world premiere of composer John Rutter’s Visions in London, UK, he recorded the work with Rutter and the Aurora Chamber Orchestra.
His most recent album, 2023’s Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos, with Philharmonia Orchestra and Patrick Hahn, was awarded Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine.
Kerson performs on the ‘ex Bohrer, Baumgartner’ Guarneri del Gesu courtesy of Canimex Inc, Drummondville (Quebec), Canada.
Concert Details
Mainstage concerts Sunday at 3:15 p.m. Music & Truffles KIDS concerts Sunday 1:15-2:15 p.m. All held at Walter Hall (UofT).
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