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August 2023
Festival of the Sound | Celebration IV – Thank You: Lafayette String Quartet
Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, violin;
Sharon Stanis, violin; Joanna Hood, viola; Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello
Festival of the Sound | Bands on the Bay – Doogie & Dun
Join two of Canada's more seasoned troubadours for an evening of sensational songwriting, filled with feeling, fun, and very fine musicianship.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Celebration V – Nathaniel Dett Chorale at 25
The Stockey Centre will resound with the joyous voices of North America’s only Afrocentric professional chamber choir as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | “Woodshred” Cellofest II – Yoga & Strings
What better way to enjoy you morning practice than by the shores of Georgian Bay with live cello music! Join some of Canada's finest young professional cellists for this first time Festival event.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Clara & Johannes I
Simon Fryer, Rachel Mercer, and Paul Marleyn, cello; Angela Park and Futaba Niekawa, piano
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Clara & Johannes II
Dr. Oliver Robinow opens the window to a fascinating past. Oliver is the grandson of Ilona Eibenschutz (1872-1967), one of Clara Schumann’s best students.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Clara & Johannes Ill
Larry Beckwith curates and hosts a fascinating multi-media program delving into the creative connection between two giants of 19th century music: Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Inspired by Clara
Duo Concertante, violin and piano;
Cameron Crozman and Rachel Mercer, cello; Angela Park, piano
Festival of the Sound | “Woodshred” Cellofest IV – 8 Cellists Shredding
Paul Marleyn, Cameron Crozman, Simon Fryer, Rachel Mercer, Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, Ethan Allers, Vinci Chen, and Jacob MacDonald, cello; Futaba Niekawa and Angela Park, piano; Leslie Fagan, soprano
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Felix & Fanny
Cameron Crozman, Paul Marleyn, Rachel Mercer and Pam Highbaugh-Aloni, cello; Angela Park and Futaba Niekawa, piano MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Capriccio, MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonatas No. 1 and 2, MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL: Sonata o Fantasia in G, MENDELSSOHN: Variations Concertantes.
Find out more »Festival of the Sound | Finale 2023: National Academy Orchestra
Boris Brott National Academy Orchestra; Alain Trudel, conductor; James Campbell, soloist
Find out more »Stratford Summer Music | Marika Bournaki and Julian Schwarz
After professing his love for her at the age of 16, cellist Julian Schwarz waited and waited for the right time to propose. In the meantime, Marika Bournaki became one of the most sought-after pianists in the world. Experience the on-stage love affair of this (now married!) couple in their only Canadian performance this year!
Find out more »Stratford Summer Music | Friday Night Live at Revival House – Laila Biali (sold out)
Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist and CBC Music national radio host Laila Biali has headlined festivals and venues spanning five continents from New York City’s Carnegie Hall to Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, and supported international icon Sting.
Find out more »September 2023
Stratford Summer Music | Fiddles and Food Trucks … Where all roads lead to music!
This coming fall, we hope you will join us for the second annual “toe-tapping, barn-raising” event in Support of Stratford Summer Music. We encourage you to bring new faces to our Stratford music community and old friends to share in the fun!
Find out more »April 2024
Soundstreams | Variations On Goldberg Variations (Keyed Up Festival #1)
The Keyed Up Festival opens with newly composed, world premiere variations on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations by five extraordinary composers.
Find out more »July 2024
Toronto Summer Music | Purcell: The Fairy Queen
A new production of Purcell’s masterpiece, this Fairy Queen brings together arts, cultures and generations… for a unique experience!
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Transfigured Night
Mentors of the Toronto Summer Music Chamber Music Institute join forces for two formidable sextets, performing Brahms and Schoenberg.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Regeneration I
ReGeneration concerts feature the TSM Academy Fellows — the rising stars of classical chamber music and Art Song — performing on stage with their Mentors.
Find out more »Brott Music | Dvorak 8
A soul stirring musical event - the essence of Dvořák’s Bohemian spirit is on full display, performed alongside works by Ravel, Rosauro, and Pierre Mercure.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Dreams And Shadows
The festival isn't complete without the iconic duo of Jonathan Crow and Philip Chiu! Join them on a journey of discovery through the works of their dreams and shadows.
Find out more »August 2024
Toronto Summer Music | Beethoven Unleashed
Superstar violinist Kerson Leong performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto under the baton of Simon Rivard with the TSM Festival Orchestra, followed by the composers Eroica Symphony.
Find out more »Brott Music | Stravinsky’s Firebird Rise Again
Tonight, our stage is a place where myth becomes magic, fairytales come to life and Indigenous traditions are honoured.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Chausson’s Violin
This thrilling performance on the penultimate night of the festival, featuring Beethoven’s beloved Septet in E-flat Major, and Chausson’s Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Festival Finale
The 2024 Festival concludes with our finale concert, featuring Academy Fellows, Festival Artist Mentors, and Community Program participants.
Find out more »Brott Music | Mahler 5
Our 2024 summer finale showcases the powerful talent of our 2024 NAO, who join forces with past graduates and guest artists from across North America.
Find out more »November 2024
West End Music | West End Micro Music Festival: Ecstatic Voices
Featuring bold, sensual works for voices, this performance subverts expectation for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.
Find out more »West End Music | West End Micro Music Festival: Ecstatic Voices
Featuring bold, sensual works for voices, this performance subverts expectation for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.
Find out more »West End Music | West End Micro Music Festival: I Saw A New Heaven
Accompany an ensemble of Toronto's most creative artists as they reach for a new sonic landscape -- a conceptual space at the meeting point of the sublime, the supernatural, and the avant-garde.
Find out more »West End Music | West End Micro Music Festival: I Saw A New Heaven
Accompany an ensemble of Toronto's most creative artists as they reach for a new sonic landscape -- a conceptual space at the meeting point of the sublime, the supernatural, and the avant-garde.
Find out more »January 2025
Royal Conservatory of Music | 21C Afterhours: GGS New Music Ensemble
Curated and conducted by Brian Current, this unforgettable night of adventurous music features Luca Francesconi's Etymo and C'est Pas Beau? a world premiere.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | The Journal of Hélène Berr
Bernard Foccroulle’s moving portrait of a Parisian Jewish student deported to Auschwitz is brought to life by Elena Howard-Scott and The Glenn Gould School Quartet.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Measha Brueggergosman-Lee: Zombie Blizzard
Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, and the Aaron Davis Trio bring to life composer Davis’s Zombie Blizzard, a song cycle of seven concert arias.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | Continuum Contemporary Music: Spanning
Continuum contemporary ensemble flutist and core member Leslie Newman takes centre stage as soloist for one of the works in this captivating program, including a world premiere Canadian composer Kotoka Suzuki.
Find out more »March 2025
Esprit Orchestra | Chasing Vito
From the blast of percussive exuberance in Abe’s The Wave to the immense force of windpower summoned up in Žuraj’s Anemoi, audiences will be on the edge of their seats
Find out more »Ottawa Chamberfest | Ottawa Chamberfest In Toronto
Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring the three-time JUNO-winning Gryphon Trio, Chamberfest’s Artistic Director Carissa Klopoushak, and the NAC Orchestra’s Emily Kruspe.
Find out more »Esprit Orchestra | ICEFIRE, DO-RE-MI & CARING FOR THE EARTH
Esprit's Edge Of Your Seat Festival continues with Eötvös’s concerto around a deceptively simple Do-Re-Mi pattern, along with Streich and Norman.
Find out more »April 2025
Esprit Orchestra | CARROT REVOLUTION
Along with world premieres of two chamber orchestra works (Mermelstein & Tse), this program reprises a work from Esprit Orchestra's percussionist Mark Duggan.
Find out more »Music Toronto | Celebration of Small Ensembles I
Join us for a Celebration of Small Ensembles – ancient, classic and 21st century music boldly curated and performed by small ensembles.
Find out more »Esprit Orchestra | IMAGINARY PANCAKE
Esprit gives world premieres of new works for chamber orchestra and contrasts a solo work for piano with larger works by Gabriella Smith, and other composers.
Find out more »Esprit Orchestra | COSMIC HEARTBEATS
Works by Nicholas Ma, James O’Callaghan - a world premiere & Esprit Orchestra commission - Claude Vivier and Unsuk Chin make up the Edge Of Your Seat Festival Finale.
Find out more »May 2025
Music Toronto | Celebration of Small Ensembles II
Join us for a Celebration of Small Ensembles – ancient, classic and 21st century music boldly curated and performed by small ensembles.
Find out more »June 2025
Music Toronto | Celebration of Small Ensembles III
Join us for a Celebration of Small Ensembles – ancient, classic and 21st century music boldly curated and performed by small ensembles.
Find out more »Opera 5 | Come Closer
Come Closer – a new Canadian opera by composer Ryan Trew and librettist Rachel Krehm based on Rachel’s experience of losing her sister Elizabeth to addiction.
Find out more »Opera 5 | Elegies: A Song Cycle
Come celebrate our Portfolio Artist interns as they perform “Elegies: A Song Cycle” by William Finn, a 75 minute musical theatre revue.
Find out more »Opera 5 | Come Closer
Come Closer – a new Canadian opera by composer Ryan Trew and librettist Rachel Krehm based on Rachel’s experience of losing her sister Elizabeth to addiction.
Find out more »July 2025
Brott Music Festival | Romeo & Juliet
Experience Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy like never before—where Prokofiev’s unforgettable score meets rich, multi-layered narration, video and performance.
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | Belle Nuit: Opera Greats
From the luminous Lakmé Flower Duet to the romantic sweep of Puccini’s La Boheme, this is opera in technicolour.
Find out more »iHarp Festival | 25 Harps, One Sound
The iHarp Festival opener brings together up to 25 harpists with 25 harps from across Canada, the United States, and around the world for a monumental concert.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Of Love And Loss: Faure and Strauss
TSM Academy Fellows—the rising stars of classical chamber music and Art Song—performing on stage with their Mentors.
Find out more »iHarp Festival | Harp Concerto Night: The Royal Harp – From Versailles to Hollywood
Harp Concerto Night: “The Royal Harp - From Versailles to Hollywood” at the Toronto International Harp Festival 2025, where the harp meets the grandeur of orchestral music.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Apotheosis: Beethoven and Schumann
Toronto Summer Music Academy Fellows—the rising stars of classical chamber music and Art Song—performing on stage with their Mentors.
Find out more »iHarp Festival | Finale Concert: Alexander Boldachev – Electric Harp
Swiss-Russian harpist Alexander Boldachev is an internationally acclaimed award-winning harpist, working in the genres of classical music and crossover pops.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Bevan & Vignoles
Mary Bevan revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, and each song is paired with another by a female composer.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Schmaltz & Pepper
Schmaltz & Pepper is a spellbinding Yiddish music ensemble playing klezmer inspired by jazz, Roma, classical, and European folk music.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | George Li
Pianist George Li showcases his effortless grace and brilliant virtuosity in a recital featuring a selection of picturesque masterpieces.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Schumann & Schubert
A super group that includes the Calidore String Quartet with Chamber Music Institute Mentors Jennifer Frautschi and Matthew Zalkind, and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Melancholia: Fauré & Chausson
Toronto Summer Music ReGeneration concerts feature our TSM Academy Fellows—the rising stars of classical chamber music and Art Song—performing on stage with their Mentors.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Love and Despair: Ravel & Franck
Toronto Summer Music ReGeneration concerts feature our TSM Academy Fellows—the rising stars of classical chamber music and Art Song—performing on stage with their Mentors.
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | Jeans & Classics
Motown and Disco: Tonight, it’s all about the hits: My Girl, The Hustle, Lady Marmalade, Stayin’ Alive, and more, performed with a full orchestra.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Allison Au
Au’s most ambitious compositional work to date, the suite marks the first time Au has featured both vocals and string quartet in her writing.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | SHHH!!! Ensemble
Zac Pulak and Edana Higham - the SHHH!!! Ensemble - share electrifying new sounds through a myriad of percussion instruments and piano.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | The Nightingale’s Sonata
Part storytelling, part live music, The Nightingale Project is a wholly unique narrated concert experience recounting the life of violinist Lea Luboshutz and her Stradivarius violin (the “Nightingale”).
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Jaeden Izik-Dzurko
Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition and recipient of the Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal, 25-year-old Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko performs.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | MISSING: In Concert
Missing is a groundbreaking and deeply moving chamber opera that gives voice to one of Canada’s most urgent human rights issues: the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | Hollywood & The Rite Of Spring
Brott Music Festival features a program of Ian Cusson, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and Korngold’s Violin Concerto, performed by international Canadian sensation Kerson Leong.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Affairs of the Heart
Experience Romantic music with pianist Philip Chiu and a roster of talented musicians, including Jonathan Crow, Min-Jeong Koh, Rémi Pelletier, and Efe Baltacıgil.
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | Broadway Dreams
From Les Misérables to Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the Roof to Oklahoma! this concert brings you the unforgettable melodies that inspire, uplift, and bring down the house.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Crow & Chiu
The iconic duo of Jonathan Crow and Philip Chiu returns to kick off the final week of the Festival - Jonathan’s last solo recital as Artistic Director of TSM!
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | Franco Fagioli: The Last Castrato
Countertenor Franco Fagioli sings the repertoire of Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780-1861), the last great castrato singer.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | New Orford String Quartet
The members of the New Orford String Quartet are all principal players in the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, performing with pianist Ian Parker.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | An Evening in Vienna
Mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, Yura Lee, violin, Jonathan Mak, piano, and the TSM Festival Orchestra perform Viennese favourites from the classical repertoire.
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | Postcards From The Sky By Candlelight
The National Academy Orchestra of Canada performs a concert of inspiring classical music in one of Hamilton's historic churches by candlelight, part of the Brott Music Festival.
Find out more »August 2025
Toronto Summer Music | Mendelssohn’s Octet
TSM’s Art of Song Program Director Steven Philcox, 2015 Academy alumna Elizabeth Polese, and our Mentors of the week perform Mendelssohn’s beloved Octet.
Find out more »Toronto Summer Music | TSM Finale
The 2025 Toronto Summer Music Festival concludes with our finale concert, featuring Academy Fellows, Festival Artist Mentors, and Community Program participants!
Find out more »Brott Music Festival | I Dream Of Italy
Feel the beating heart of Italy though music that dazzles , stirs and inspires at the Brott Music Festival.
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