Past Events

“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.

Maxim Emelyanychev, Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, leads the TSO in four performances of Tchaikovsky's beloved Sleeping Beauty

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.

Traversing rich and varied musical landscapes, this concert laments the dramatic ecological loss of bees and the associated acoustic loss (referencing its musical predecessor Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee), presents a tapestry of a thousand flowers in the constantly shimmering gestures of Martinaityte’s sonic garden, and delivers harp virtuosity in our Music Director’s harp concerto, specially written for Erica Goodman.

Maxim Emelyanychev, Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, leads the TSO in four performances of Tchaikovsky's beloved Sleeping Beauty

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.

Maxim Emelyanychev, Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, leads the TSO in four performances of Tchaikovsky's beloved Sleeping Beauty

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.

Maxim Emelyanychev, Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, leads the TSO in four performances of Tchaikovsky's beloved Sleeping Beauty

Celebrate the holidays with the return of a seasonal favourite, Home Alone in Concert. Macaulay Culkin stars as an inventive eight-year-old, accidentally left alone over Christmas, who repeatedly outsmarts a couple of bone-headed burglars.

Royal Conservatory Orchestra Resident Conductor and former principal clarinetist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Joaquin Valdepeñas conducts Glenn Gould School students in a program of chamber works for winds.

Celebrate the holidays with the return of a seasonal favourite, Home Alone in Concert. Macaulay Culkin stars as an inventive eight-year-old, accidentally left alone over Christmas, who repeatedly outsmarts a couple of bone-headed burglars.

The Middle Ages produced some of the most serene and heartfelt Christmas music of all time.

Irina Olegovna Grafova studies piano and composition at the Stolyarsky Special Music School, the Odessa Conservatory and Moscow State University (Odessa) and is a laureate of international competitions.

Get in the holiday spirit with Canadian icon and acclaimed jazz songstress, Holly Cole! Her legendary Christmas concert, full of much-loved standards alongside eclectic selections of songs, returns to Koerner Hall and features her impeccable band along with string players from The Royal Conservatory.

The Middle Ages produced some of the most serene and heartfelt Christmas music of all time.

Celebrate the holidays with the return of a seasonal favourite, Home Alone in Concert. Macaulay Culkin stars as an inventive eight-year-old, accidentally left alone over Christmas, who repeatedly outsmarts a couple of bone-headed burglars.

The enchantment and wonder of the holiday season is not the same without the musical classics we love! Surround yourself with the beauty of song, dance and sounds of the season.

Celebrate the holidays with the return of a seasonal favourite, Home Alone in Concert. Macaulay Culkin stars as an inventive eight-year-old, accidentally left alone over Christmas, who repeatedly outsmarts a couple of bone-headed burglars.

The Middle Ages produced some of the most serene and heartfelt Christmas music of all time.

Celebrate the holiday season with Loreena McKennitt’s Under A Winter’s Moon, a captivating live performance of carols and tales that blends Celtic, Indigenous, and Welsh cultures.