Past Events

Grammy Award-winning banjo superstar, sublime vocalist, and critics’ darling, Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present.

Your Toronto Symphony Orchestra proudly kicks off Year 101 with a musical mosaic, highlighted by the multi-faceted Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s electrifying take on Gershwin’s jazz-influenced Piano Concerto in F.

Our 45th anniversary season kicks off with an all-Beethoven blockbuster. Tafelmusik’s dear friend Bruno Weil leads a program pairing the brilliant Symphony no. 4 with the iconic Symphony no. 5.

In memory of violinist Geoff Nuttall

A feast for the senses, this evocative program opens with an imaginative musical journey through touch, smell, taste, sound and sight by Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez Bellido.

Indigenous artists gather to honour those affected by residential schools and offer hope for the future.

University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer, conductor

Singer, songwriter, and Barenaked Ladies co-founder Steven Page performs with his trio and Canadian music legend Tom Wilson.

A special side-by-side event featuring the works of Stravinsky, Enescu, and Menut. Students from the Conservatoire National Superieur de musique de Lyon join with our own string students and faculty, led by visiting professor and international star Marianne Piketty.

RCM alumnus Earl Lee is a renowned Korean-Canadian cellist and conductor, currently Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony and Music Director of the Ann Arbor Symphony.

Making his Tafelmusik debut this season is French/Italian violinist Emmanuel Resche-Caserta, concertmaster of Les Arts Florissants and an artist whose “remarkable direction is coupled with superb violin playing, ease, and virtuosity” (ForumOpera).

Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich has performed with every major orchestra in the US, many on numerous occasions, as well as an ever-growing number of major orchestras in the UK, Europe, and the Far East.

“Trees and Machines” 
Wind Ensemble  
Gillian MacKay, conductor 

Anoushka Shankar is a singular, genre-defying artist with a list of extraordinary accomplishments - masterful sitarist, film composer, impassioned activist, the youngest and first female recipient of a British House of Commons Shield, and the first Indian woman to be nominated for the Grammy Awards.

RBC Resident Conductor Trevor Wilson leads an entrancing program that showcases the people, places, and things from which composers often draw inspiration.

Exploring varied musical, physical and psychological environments, any one of which could be marked with an X as a destination worth visiting, this program moves from Anna Meredith’s bold, highly energized Nautilus, derived from a stomp along a beach in Scotland, to R. Murray Schafer’s depiction of the rain and mist shrouded Neuschwanstein, King Ludwig’s castle in the Bavarian mountains.

One of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2023/24 Spotlight Artists, GRAMMY® Award–winning violinist James Ehnes headlines a spirited program celebrating two monumental 20th-century American works.

Omar Kamal brings together a stunning repertoire of emotional hits for one enchanting evening at Koerner Hall.

“Ontario Pictures” 
Wind Symphony 

The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists presents a concert by the leading young classical musicians in Canada. Hear the stars of tomorrow!

MacMillan Singers, Concreamus Chamber Choir, and instrumental ensemble perform movements from Craig Hella Johnson’s evocative oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard. 2023 is the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder.

Beethoven's Fifth! 25th & 5th!
Beethoven’s best, a brilliant premiere and spectacular violin virtuosity

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Jonathan Crow takes on the fascinating Violin Concerto of György Ligeti in honour of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Hailed by NPR as “one of America’s defining voices of freedom and peace,” Mavis Staples is the kind of once-in-a-generation artist whose impact on music and culture would be difficult to overstate.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Jonathan Crow takes on the fascinating Violin Concerto of György Ligeti in honour of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Singer extraordinaire Audra McDonald joins your Toronto Symphony Orchestra for a sparkling, one-night-only affair.

‘Exquisite’ in 1591, enchanting today. Travel back to the vibrant English Renaissance and delight in the shimmering and silvery sounds of plucked strings, bowed strings and transverse flute, as heard at private entertainments of the late sixteenth century. Known as the “broken” consort because its members were drawn from diverse instrumental families, this exquisite sonic mixture enchanted its audiences in the time of Elizabeth I, but is rarely experienced today. The program offers a colourful array of consort “lessons” and…

Break out of the concert hall and shatter the rules of a traditional classical music experience.

Solo and chamber works are performed by young artists on the cusp of major careers, who are enrolled in The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Glenn Gould School.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis leads the weekend performances in honour of Remembrance Day, which include a World Première commission by composer Ed Frazier Davis.

A gallery of beautiful vistas painted in gorgeous tone-colours

One of the leading voices of a new generation of flamenco cantaors, Israel Fernández draws from the deep well of flamenco to captivate new audiences with its timeless power.

Celebrated Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv leads Dvořák’s lively Symphony No. 8, inspired by the Bohemian countryside and rousing Czech dances.

Choir Director Ivars Taurins has curated some of his favourite works in this soundscape of 17th- and 18th-century European choral music—from the breathtaking originality of Monteverdi to the luminosity of Bach.  

The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists presents a concert by the leading young classical musicians in Canada. Hear the stars of tomorrow!

Hoping to become the next great pop sensation, a young girl discovers her music teacher was the biggest star in 18th-century France.

Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra podium in a highly anticipated program featuring a work he has conducted to great acclaim throughout his career, Mahler’s tempestuous Fifth Symphony, with its movements of darkness and light, triumphant horn fanfares, and ebullient fugues.

Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Artistic Adviser of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.

With almost 450 years of tradition, Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Founded as a court orchestra by Prince-Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg in 1570, the ensemble expanded its activities with the founding of the Royal Court Opera in 1742 by Frederick the Great.

Beautiful and profound. Tender and triumphant.

A timeless holiday musical event. It was one of Boris’ favourite things to conduct.

The ARC Ensemble celebrates its 20th anniversary with Walter Braunfels's ravishing String Quintet, one of ARC’s early discoveries.

Tchaikovsky’s delight for his original ballet score for The Sleeping Beauty, and his desire to adapt it into an orchestral suite, languished due to the monumental task of editing down the volume of enchanting numbers.