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Crossover British tenor and star of Britain’s Got Talent, Jonathan Antoine transforms the Winter Garden Theatre into a musical fantasy world featuring iconic music ranging from Disney anthems to popular songs and the world’s greatest arias (including his debut performance of “Nessun Dorma”), all performed by the young, 24 year-old vocal sensation. This magical concert, which will be filmed for television, also features the internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated virtuoso electric cellist, Tina Guo and Disney’s own a cappella vocal sensation DCappella. Along with an orchestra, these artists will bring their audience into…

Talent, energy, dedication – for 47 years the Ontario Youth Choir has been pushing the boundaries of choral excellence and amazing crowds with the quality of their performances. Chosen by rigorous audition, the university and secondary school age singers from all over the province gather once a year to rehearse and perform. This year's concert includes a diverse range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

In the first Toronto series concert, we will present the program set out at the opening concert of 40th anniversary of Parry Sound’s Festival of the Sound (which also coincided with our 40th anniversary year). The program will include the Toronto Premiere of “The Sound – A Musical Evocation of Georgian Bay” by Eric Robertson, text by Gary Michael Dault. There will be a Prelude concert followed by refreshments at 2:00pm.

VOCAL SERIES Colombian-American soprano Vanessa Vasquez (Liù in the COC’s Turandot) is a winner of the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has been praised by Opera News Magazine as an “unmistakable audience favorite whose exquisitely floated conclusion to Liù's ‘Signore ascolta!’ all but brought the house down.” She is joined by pianist Miloš Repický for a recital which ranges from the music of Richard Strauss to Enrique Granados.

Kathleen Allan's debut concert as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Amadeus Choir features works for choir and strings and begins with a world premiere by celebrated Canadian composer Rita Ueda. Centering around themes of reflection and remembrance, the program includes works by Beethoven, Britten, Mendelssohn, and Rheinberger, and culminates in Tarik O'Regan's explosive three-movement work, Triptych. With its "relentless urban rhythms" and texts from vastly diverse sources, the piece deals with the pain of war and looks forward with…

Kathleen Allan's debut concert as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Amadeus Choir features works for choir and strings and begins with a world premiere by celebrated Canadian composer Rita Ueda. Centering around themes of reflection and remembrance, the program includes works by Beethoven, Britten, Mendelssohn, and Rheinberger, and culminates in Tarik O'Regan's explosive three-movement work, Triptych. With its "relentless urban rhythms" and texts from vastly diverse sources, the piece deals with the pain of war and looks forward with…

The concert will musically span the TMC’s 125-year history, moving from the founding year of 1894 into the future with an anniversary composition by acclaimed Cree composer Andrew Balfour. The concert will open with two glorious acappella works by Mendelssohn (of whom we are the namesake), followed by a stellar choral-orchestral work from each century during which the Choir has sung. Felix Mendelssohn: Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir (1844) Felix Mendelssohn: Psalm 43: Richte mich, Gott (1844) Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (1930)…

One of the world’s reigning sopranos in Baroque and Classical repertoire, Karina Gauvin, and Vancouver’s exciting and innovative specialists in performing “early music for modern ears,” bring you a concert entitled “Russian White Nights: Opera arias from 18th century St. Petersburg.” At the turn of the 18th century, Peter the Great began to drag Russia, often kicking and screaming, toward the rest of Europe. His new capital, St. Petersburg, was to be a window to the West, and to that…

The Sun, the Wind, and the Man with the Cloak, cantata by Stephanie Martin (Conductor Emeritus b. 1962), words by Paul Ciufo (b. 1970). This performance will be the world premiere of this new work, which was commissioned by Pax Christi Chorale. Serenade to Music, music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), words by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). As Torrents in Summer, My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, music by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and…

Koerner Hall Recital Debut Abkhazian soprano Hibla Gerzmava stunned Toronto critics and the audience when, in 2017, she made her first Canadian appearance with the Moscow Virtuosi and Maestro Vladimir Spivakov. Highly acclaimed for such leading roles as Leonora in La forza del destino, Desdemona in Otello, Liù in Turandot, and the title roles of Anna Bolena and Aida, she regularly appears at La Scala, Covent Garden, the Mariinsky Theatre, Opéra national de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera, and opera houses in Vienna, Rome and Madrid, among others. Hibla Gerzmava appears as part…

Hear Toronto Children's Chorus' senior choir (ages 11-16) and Toronto Youth Choir (ages 16-30) perform in their season debut. About this Event Join the Toronto Children’s Chorus for the season debut of TCC’s senior Chorale ensemble (ages 11-16), and Toronto Youth Choir (ages 16-30) as they perform an exciting program featuring old and new choral favourites , including works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn, Eleanor Daley and Katerina Gimon.

“One small step for man” – these powerful words launched a new era in humanity’s fascination with Earth’s original satellite. Embark with Orpheus on a choral journey marking this historic 50th anniversary, from the astonishing discoveries revealed by Galileo’s telescope to dramatic Mission Control accounts of the lunar landing. Explore time and space through the premiere of Canadian composer Tawnie Olson’s ‘That’s One Small Step…’ along with works by Leonard Enns, Ola Gjeilo, Voces8, and more! GUEST ARTISTS Vaso String…

Internationally celebrated Canadian soprano and newly-appointed Vocal Chair and Head of the Vocal Department of The Glenn Gould School, Adrianne Pieczonka, and pianist Rachel Andrist, present Wagner’s rare song cycle, Wesendonck-Lieder, Korngold’s Four Shakespeare Songs, and works by Schubert and Strauss.

Irish-Canadian mezzo, Wallis Giunta, has been named “Young Singer of the Year” in the 2018 International Opera Awards, “Young Artist of the Year” by The Arts Desk and “Breakthrough Artist in UK Opera.” She is a rising star, in demand internationally for her exquisite sound, effortless skill, and intelligent musicality. Her versatility extends from operatic Mozart to Kurt Weill cabaret, music theatre to the Metropolitan Opera. Her 2018/19 season included UK debuts with the BBC Proms and the Grange Festival as Mozart’s Cherubino, with the…

Director Peter Phillips has worked with The Tallis Scholars, leading exponent of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world, to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound that serves the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which the group has become so widely renowned. “As near extraterrestrial as you can get sitting in a concert hall.” (The Observer) Based in a fascination with…

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir presents a magical evening of Bach family motets, written for choir and continuo, interwoven with movements from J.S. Bach's suites for solo cello played by the newest member of Tafelmusik, the brilliant young cellist Keiran Campbell. Program: Johann Bach, Meint nicht um meinen Tod Johann Sebastian Bach, Der Geist hilf unser Schwachheit auf Johann Christoph Bach, Lieber Herr Gott, wecke auf uns Johann Michael Bach, Halt, was du hast Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, Jesu, komm / Chorale:…

Looking for a lively musical event to brighten your February? Join us for the Amadeus Choir’s annual fundraiser, Songs from a Celtic Heart. The choir will perform several well-loved pieces from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Maritimes. There will also be a silent auction, fun games, cash bar, and delicious complimentary refreshments. Tickets, here.

Looking for a lively musical event to brighten your February? Join us for the Amadeus Choir’s annual fundraiser, Songs from a Celtic Heart. The choir will perform several well-loved pieces from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Maritimes. There will also be a silent auction, fun games, cash bar, and delicious complimentary refreshments. Looking for a lively musical event to brighten your February? Join us for the Amadeus Choir’s annual fundraiser, Songs from a Celtic Heart. The choir will perform several…

A wonderful opportunity to see the GGS's talented voice students present an evening of art songs and opera arias.

This cabaret features the music of British songwriter Ivor Novello, famous for his two wartime songs – “Keep the Homefires Burning” and “We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring.”  Guillermo Silva-Marin is the host, and singers include Lynn Isnar, Holly Chaplin, Michael Barrett, Cian Horrobin and Ian Backstrom with Peter Tiefenbach as pianist and music director.

The All-Night Vigil is perhaps Sergei Rachmaninoff’s greatest choral masterpiece, a lush and transcendent setting of traditional texts from the canonical hours of the Russian Orthodox Church. Written in 1915, its magnificent, soaring movements derive from ancient Kievan and Byzantine chants, many of which will be presented in this concert together with Rachmaninoff’s settings. The acclaimed Clarion Choir of New York join the Schola Cantorum under the direction of guest conductor Steven Fox. Steven Fox, conductor with Clarion Choir

For our second concert we are making our contribution to preserving the art of song with our own version of Schubertiade. Our all-Schubert concert will feature lieder sung by our stellar soloists, solo piano and the gorgeous Mass Number 4 in C Major, with chamber orchestra. Small is beautiful. Jurgen Petrenko conducts the choir, the Talisker Players, and soloists.

Johann Rosenmüller was a rising star on the German musical scene and was promised the position of cantor at the Leipzig Thomasschule (the position J.S. Bach would assume). But his career was derailed when he was thrown into prison on suspicion of homosexuality. Thankfully, he escaped and continued his career in Venice, composing sacred concertos that rival those of Monteverdi in their majesty and beauty. For this glorious evening celebrating the 400th year of Rosenmüller’s birth, the TCC will be…