THE SCOOP | The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU Dance Returns To York University

By Anya Wassenberg on May 5, 2025

The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU dance initiative returns to York University this week, May 5 to 8, for a third year, culminating in a livestreamed performance on May 15.

FEATURE | Taking The Podium: Three Conductors Test Drive The Toronto Symphony Orchestra

By Anya Wassenberg on April 24, 2025

The audience in Roy Thomson Hall was there on the evening of April 23 to take in a master class in conducting, part of Tapestry Opera's Women in Musical Leadership program.

PREVIEW | Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra Presents Appalachian Spring

By Anya Wassenberg on April 10, 2025

The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the new season with a concert titled Appalachian Spring, and award-winning young pianist Dayou Kim.

PREVIEW | Music Toronto Announces 2025-26 Season Of Concerts, Community, And More

By Anya Wassenberg on April 9, 2025

Along with live music, Music Toronto’s 2025/26 season features a three-pronged approach that includes concerts, artist development, and community engagement.

FEATURE | University Of Toronto Talk Focuses On Preparing Music Artists For An AI-Dominated Industry

By Anya Wassenberg on March 5, 2025

INTERVIEW | Toronto Psychoanalyst And Author Mavis Himes Talks About Her Book Cello Notes: Music and the Urgency of Time

By Ludwig Van on February 10, 2025

A sense of child-like wonder pervades Cello Notes: Music and the Urgency of Time: memoir meditating on aging, Time, cancer, and COVID by Mavis Himes.

INTERVIEW | General And Co-Artistic Director Valerie Kuinka Talks About Highlands Opera & Their Benefit Concert February 9

By Anya Wassenberg on January 28, 2025

On February 9, American soprano Christine Goerke and alumni from the program will perform a benefit concert for Highlands Opera Studio.

OP/ED | Is Classical Music Relevant In The 21st Century?

By Anya Wassenberg on January 20, 2025

Can classical music, which draws on centuries of repertoire, much of it created in times very different than our own, still be relevant in 2025?

THE SCOOP | Canadian Opera Company Announces The Five Singers Joining The 2025/26 Ensemble Studio

By Anya Wassenberg on January 16, 2025

Ariana Maubach, Angelo Moretti, Nicholas Murphy, Emma Pennell, and Ben Wallace are the new members of the COC Ensemble Studio for 2025/26.

THE SCOOP | Oscar Peterson Program Artistic Director Colin Clarke Among Appointments To Order of Canada

By Anya Wassenberg on December 20, 2024

Colin Roswell Clarke, Artistic Director of the Royal Conservatory’s Oscar Peterson Program, has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada.