Past Events

If childhood has a soundtrack, there’s at least one Alan Menken song on it.

Alain Trudel and the National Academy Orchestra with soloist Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster for The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, captivate in the Ontario Premiere of Cameron Wilson’s Canadian Seasons.

In 2018, Marvel Studios’ Black Panther quickly became a global sensation and cultural phenomenon, showing a new dimension of what superhero films could be.

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana opens our festival and is arguably the most frequently performed choral work of the 21st century.

Join us for an evening with like-minded arts lovers over good food, great conversation, and fabulous music to celebrate the opening of the 2023 Toronto Summer Music Festival.

An evening of your favourite PopOpera arias, ensembles, orchestral overtures and more. A showcase of pure talent from our BrottOpera cast and National Academy Orchestra.

An all-star lineup of artists kicks off the Festival! Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko, winner of the 2022 Honens International Piano Competition, is joined by internationally renowned artist Jon Kimura Parker, Music Director of the Honens Competition.

Bring the whole family and join the KW Woodwind Quintet for one of music’s greatest stories, Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Elora Festival Artistic Director Mark Vuorinen.

ReGeneration concerts feature our TSM Academy Fellows — the rising stars of classical chamber music and art song — performing on stage with their Mentors, the top pedagogues and performers of today.

ReGeneration concerts feature our TSM Academy Fellows — the rising stars of classical chamber music and art song — performing on stage with their Mentors, the top pedagogues and performers of today.

ReGeneration concerts feature our TSM Academy Fellows — the rising stars of classical chamber music and art song — performing on stage with their Mentors, the top pedagogues and performers of today.

Discover the ‘evolution of the string quartet,’ beginning with pieces of a Haydn quartet on acoustic instruments, jumping to jazz, going through 70s rock on electric instruments and all through the pop sounds of the present day.

Grammy Award winner, Puerto Rico-born artist Ana María Martínez is considered one of the foremost sopranos of her time.

Daniel Vnukowski joins virtuoso Peter Stoll, one of Canada’s most innovative and versatile clarinetists, for a thrilling program of classical and jazz masterworks dating from the early 18th century, with tantalizing musical deserts by Giuseppe Tartini and Wolfgang A. Mozart to the late 20th century, with many audience favourites by George Gershwin and Benny Goodman.

A unique, multi-disciplined, and all-Canadian event! The members of the Ironwood Quartet are joined by Tai Chi Chuan players including prize-winner Jonathan Krehm, David Robert, and Evonne Tan in a combined ode to the Chinese martial art and to Canadian artistry.

Puccini’s famous opera, Madama Butterfly, is reimagined by interdisciplinary performer-creator, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) into The Butterfly Project 蝶々さんのプロジェクト (or, The Ballad of Chō-Chō san).

La Traviata is a romantic tragedy which inspired the famous Moulin Rouge and Pretty Woman were inspired. La Traviata tells the tale of a prostitute dying of tuberculosis who catches the eye of the young, Alfredo.

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky)