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August 2021
The Elora Festival Online | Poetry & Song: The Elora Singers & Colm Feore
Poetry & Song The Elora Singers & Colm Feore "Poetry & Song" blends words and music as we hear Canadian stage actor Colm Feore narrate the program, including the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Canadian composer Stephanie Martin, based on poetry by Robert Frost. // The Elora Festival Online: August 5-28 2021. Tickets can be purchased through our website. Single Concerts $15 - $60. Weekend and Festival passes also available. All concerts available until 11:59 pm on…
Find out more »Canadian Sinfonietta | Summer Outdoor Fundraising Concert
The Canadian Sinfonietta is thrilled to present our first concert for the 2021 – 2022 season! Mark your calendars as this exciting in-person event will be held on August 29th from 4-6 pm on the beautiful spacious green space behind the Lai house. Please join us for this enjoyable afternoon of live music. The program includes virtuosic solo performances by singer Maria Soulis as well as the orchestra’s principal players Joyce Lai (playing a work by our own Maestro Tak…
Find out more »Stratford Summer Music | Jens Lindemann — Season Finale
Despite Covid constraints, this multiple award-winning musician continues to perform, record and connect music lovers around the world. Headlining our 2021 Grand Finale concert, Jens Lindemann's Brassfire will thrill you with new arrangements of favourites by Tommy Dorsey, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington and more. Robi Botos, piano, Mike Downes, bass, Ernesto Cervini, drums This performance will be, at maximum, 75 minutes without intermission. Series Sponsored by: Presented by: Wayne and Nancy Treitz In memory of: Harold "Gerry" Lewis
Find out more »Music Mondays | Phenomenal Women
Phenomenal Women - Laurel Swinden and Stephanie Mara Laurel Swinden and Stephanie Mara showcase outstanding works for flute and piano by four composers who happen also to be Phenomenal Women: Florence B. Price, Amanda Harberg, Valerie Coleman and Cecile Chaminade. Maya Angelou’s poem Human Family is both the explicit inspiration for Valerie Coleman’s work, and the unifying spirit of the program. Program: Florence Beatrice Price (1888-1953) — The Deserted Garden. (1933) Amanda Harberg, 1973– — Court Dances (2017) I: Courante…
Find out more »September 2021
Music Mondays | 20th Century Masterpieces for Violin and Piano
Closing Music Monday's 30 Anniversary Season are two long-time friends of Music Mondays: Aaron Schwebel (Concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra and Associate Concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra) and Emily Rho (Co-Artistic Director of Toronto Pocket Concerts). They will treat us to a program of three 20th century works for violin and piano. Program: Elizabeth Raum Les Ombres (1989) Aaron SchwebelviolinEmily Rhopiano Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in F minor, op. 80…
Find out more »Canadian Stage | Dream In High Park: An Evening with Jeremy Dutcher
Come down to High Park a concert by the incomparable Polaris Prize-winning performer, composer, activist, and musicologist Jeremy Dutcher. A member of Tobique First Nation of New Brunswick and trained in the western operatic traditional, Dutcher’s music playfully integrates classical influences into traditional songs of his Wolastoqiyik Nation people. An intimate evening under the stars, this will be a rare opportunity to commune with one of the most exciting and essential artists in the country.
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Strings and Gelato: A Fundraising Recital & Ice Cream Social
Join a quartet of Orchestra Toronto's principle strings on the terrace of the Women's Art Association* for an intimate, yet socially distanced, afternoon of music and gelato in support of Orchestra Toronto's 2021-22 season. They are offering both an in-person and an online recital. After the main programme of solo and string quartet music, audience members will have the opportunity to bid on encore pieces. Audience members can bid on the encores for one week to the event, and during…
Find out more »Kindred Spirits Orchestra | Shostakovich 14th Symphony
The Kindred Spirits Orchestra presents uniquely orchestrated compositions from two unique European masters of twentieth century music. Deeply touched by his fellow composer’s death, and scored for tubular bell and string orchestra, Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten is a mournful and meditative elegy. Dmitri Shostakovich’s most extraordinarily scored symphony is his Fourteenth. Written for two solo voices, string orchestra and percussion, this work is a profound ode to the power of suffering and death. Presented in original (Russian) language with surtitles in English.
Find out more »Toronto International Film Festival | Oscar Peterson: Black + White
Born in a working-class area of Montreal, Oscar Peterson catapulted to the top of the jazz world in the late 1940s, remaining there until his death in 2007 at the age of 82. The legendary Count Basie offered the pianist a job when he was practically still a teenager. He founded one of the greatest jazz quartets in the genre’s history, worked with many of the world’s greatest jazz artists — Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Sonny Stitt, and Stan Getz…
Find out more »Small World Music | Andrew Kay & Ravi Naimpally
Presented by Small World Music, in partnership with Raag-Mala Toronto, as a part of 25 for 25 - Small World Music's 25th Anniversary Program Recorded live at the Small World Centre, this performance provides an immersion into Indian Classical Music and showcases a Jugalbandi (duet), from the outstanding presenters. Accompanying Pankaj Mishra (Sarangi) and Andrew Kay (Saxophone & Himalayan Singing Bowls), is Abbas Janmohammed (Tabla). Both Andrew & Abbas are accomplished alumni of SWM’s eMERGEnce artist-development program. This event is…
Find out more »Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra | The Joy Of Beethoven
Stephen Sitarski, Conductor Beethoven: Sonata in F major Op. 10, No. 2 (arr. Sitarski) Thea Musgrave: Orfeo III Grieg: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major We welcome the Fall with this collection of musical gems that share optimism and joy. HPO musicians are featured in chamber ensembles, showcasing the lyricism and vibrancy of their instruments. The HPO String Quartet performs an arrangement of Beethoven’s sunny Piano Sonata in F major along with Grieg’s charming String Quartet No. 2. Musgrave’s Orfeo III offers an escape through…
Find out more »National Arts Centre Orchestra | Ehnes and Beethoven’s Fifth (online)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28 LILI BOULANGER Nocturne for Violin and Orchestra, arr. Sarah Slean JESSIE MONTGOMERY Strum SARASATE Zigeunerweisen for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 20 (Gypsy Airs) Beethoven’s glorious Symphony No. 5 is music that gets under your skin, still inspiring and delighting more than two centuries after its first performance in 1808. NACO Artist-in-Residence, James Ehnes, returns to Southam Hall to perform Camille Saint-Saëns’s spirited…
Find out more »SweetWater Music Festival | Saturday Night Mainstage (Online)
Performers: Philip Chiu, Rosebud String Quartet (Aaron Schewbel, Keith Hamm, Leana Rutt, Sheila Jaffe), Julie Hereish, Edwin Huizinga Program: Samuel Barber, Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Opus 6 I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Adagio (in combination with a scherzo) III. Allegro appassionato. Gabriel Faure, Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Andantino III. Allegro vivo Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Opus 36 I. Allegro non troppo (G major) II. Scherzo – Allegro non troppo…
Find out more »CMMAS | Eve Egoyan In Concert
September 22 -24, 2021. Streamed performance (a repeat of the live streamed performance from Open Ears Festival). New works for augmented and acoustic piano as well as Surface Tension, a collaborative work with media artist David Rokeby for piano and real-time images. Visiones sonoras. CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras).
Find out more »Music Toronto | Virtual Concert Series: Marc-André Hamelin (online)
Marc-André Hamelin Thurs. September 23 at 7:30 pm. Available until 7:30 pm Sat. September 25. The concert link will appear here at 7:30. If you don't see it please refresh your browers. Hold CTRL key down and tap F5 on your keyboard (PC) or COMMAND + R (Mac)
Find out more »Soundstreams | Garden Of Vanished Pleasures (online)
If modern gardening has a patron saint, it must be English artist, filmmaker, and queer rights activist Derek Jarman. As the AIDS plague took his friends one by one and he himself faced an increasingly uncertain future, he discovered his own form of hope, resilience, and solace in his garden by the sea. A theatrical, filmed production with new work from composers Cecilia Livingston and Donna McKevitt, GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES is drawn from Jarman’s journals, devised and directed by Tim Albery. Runs from Thursday September 23 2021 to Sunday October 10…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | TSO at the Drive-In: Mozart & Martines (in-person)
Be there as the TSO returns for its first performances with audiences in nearly a year! Hum along in your car to two of Mozart’s best known works—pulsating rhythms dominate and sonic sparks fly in Symphony No. 40, and Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) is guaranteed to delight one and all. An overture by Marianna Martines, a Viennese classical period composer living at the same time as Mozart, rounds out the evening, led by TSO RBC Resident Conductor Simon Rivard.
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | In Concert: Russell Braun and Tamara Wilson with the COC Orchestra
Two of opera’s best-loved opera stars, baritone Russell Braun and soprano Tamara Wilson, reunite with the COC Music Director Johannes Debus and the COC Orchestra, presenting a carefully curated program that explores the vast spectrum of human experience and the vital spark of connection that the arts provide in a tumultuous and uncertain world.
Find out more »Harbourfront Centre | Dog Without Feathers
Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers) — Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker (Brazil) Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker delivers a powerful work that brings to life the poem “O Cão Sem Plumas,” written by João Cabral de Melo Neto about the Capibaribe River Region of Northeastern Brazil. Performed by 14 dancers of astonishing physicality, the choreography interweaves classical, contemporary, popular and ritual dances. The performance is set against black and white projections, the striking images of filmmaker Cláudio Assis captured on-location where the…
Find out more »Music in the Afternoon | Blake Pouliot & Hsin-I Huang
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 | 1.30 pm | Walter Hall, U of T Blake Pouliot, violin; Hsin-I Huang, piano This recital is a delayed celebration of Blake Pouliot’s 2018 WMCT Career Development Award. Blake has joined the upper echelon of brilliant soloists, establishing himself as a 21st-century artist with rigour and passion. He performs on the 1729 Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank as First Laureate of both their 2015 and 2018 Competitions. His shortened 2019-2020…
Find out more »The Musical Stage Company | UnCovered: The Music of Dolly Parton
The Musical Stage Company’s 15th annual signature concert spotlights hit songs from the Queen of Country, onstage at Koerner Hall! Featuring inventive arrangements of Dolly Parton classics by music director Reza Jacobs, and award-winning Canadian artists who have graced international stages and screens, UnCovered is a unique and unmissable event. Craving a live in-person event? A limited number of patrons can attend one of three performances at Koerner Hall from September 30-October 2 as we film the performance with a…
Find out more »October 2021
Confluence Concerts | Bach Cello Suites: Part 1 (online)
Cello Suites No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007 and No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 Premiering Online October 1, 2021 With Winona Zelenka and Michelle Tang, cello
Find out more »Upper Canada Choristers | To Sit and Dream. Voices of Women Through the Ages
Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the 35-voice mixed choir and its accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos in their third live streaming concert since the pandemic. On Friday, October 1, 7:30 p.m. Members of Cantemos and the Main Choir will appear on stage at Toronto’s Grace Church on-the-Hill, with the rest of the choir joining in virtually via ZOOM. Only 50 in-person tickets are available on a first-come basis. Covid Protocols: Performers and in-person audience members will be subject to all of the…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony | TSO at the Drive-In: Pride Together
Barrett Principal Education Conductor & Community Ambassador Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads the Orchestra in a high-octane program that parallels the journey of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Unifying themes like desire, protest, and acceptance are depicted through songs like “Vogue”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Time Warp”, and more. So get ready to rev your engine, honk your horn, and dance! Price is per car.
Find out more »The Musical Stage Company | UnCovered: The Music of Dolly Parton
The Musical Stage Company’s 15th annual signature concert spotlights hit songs from the Queen of Country, onstage at Koerner Hall! Featuring inventive arrangements of Dolly Parton classics by music director Reza Jacobs, and award-winning Canadian artists who have graced international stages and screens, UnCovered is a unique and unmissable event. Craving a live in-person event? A limited number of patrons can attend one of three performances at Koerner Hall from September 30-October 2 as we film the performance with a…
Find out more »Sinfonia Toronto | Sinfonia Toronto’s Greatest Hits
SINFONIA'S GREATEST HITS - An Ontario Culture Days event An hour of popular gems, favourite melodies from Mozart to Shostakovich. Enjoy the brilliant strings of Sinfonia Toronto and Maestro Nurhan Arman's genial introductions in a casual one-hour concert from 3 to 4 pm in the spectacular lobby of Meridian Hall, one of three great TO Live venues. Sinfonia's Greatest Hits is presented with support from TO Live, Ontario Re-Connect and the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Program MOZART Divertimento K 136 SHOSTAKOVICH Waltz…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony | TSO at the Drive-In: Pride Together
Barrett Principal Education Conductor & Community Ambassador Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads the Orchestra in a high-octane program that parallels the journey of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Unifying themes like desire, protest, and acceptance are depicted through songs like “Vogue”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Time Warp”, and more. So get ready to rev your engine, honk your horn, and dance!
Find out more »The Musical Stage Company | UnCovered: The Music of Dolly Parton
The Musical Stage Company’s 15th annual signature concert spotlights hit songs from the Queen of Country, onstage at Koerner Hall! Featuring inventive arrangements of Dolly Parton classics by music director Reza Jacobs, and award-winning Canadian artists who have graced international stages and screens, UnCovered is a unique and unmissable event. Craving a live in-person event? A limited number of patrons can attend one of three performances at Koerner Hall from September 30-October 2 as we film the performance with a…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Thursdays at Noon. Dialogues: Analysis and Performance Opening Concert
University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble performs Inuksuit by John Luther Adams (2009). This concert will take place outside on Philosopher’s Walk behind the Edward Johnson Building at 80 Queen’s Park.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Andrei Feher conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra
Program: Aaron Copland: Overture from Fanfare for the Common Man Joan Towers: Overture from Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, op. 55
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Synopsis Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the highly anticipated 2021–22 Live in HD season. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people, as well as the title ruler himself. Cast René Pape Directors Composer: Mussorgsky; Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Find out more »UofT Faculty of Music | Thursdays at Noon: Angela Schwarzkopf and Guests (online)
Harpist Angela Schwarzkopf is joined by special guests vibraphonists Michelle Colton and Étienne Levesque to perform selections from detach, winner of the 2020 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber, and compositions by fellow Music alumni. Livestream
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | TSO Live Stream: Gimeno’s Homecoming
Join Music Director Gustavo Gimeno and the TSO as they return to the Roy Thomson Hall stage for an alluring live-stream performance of diverse and tuneful offerings. A playful symphony by 18th-century Black composer—and champion fencer—Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, opens the program. Brahms's youthful energy and command of melody shine in a Serenade written when he was just 25 years old. Between these two musical gems, the TSO string section sings in Canadian Nathaniel Dett’s “His Song”, a soulful…
Find out more »Soundstreams | RBC Bridges Showcase: Six World Premieres
Join us for the world premieres of six new choral works, and support the next generation of composers with the RBC Bridges Showcase! Our six participants have worked throughout the pandemic with mentor composer Sarah Kirkland Snider (“one of the decade’s more gifted, up-and-coming modern classical composers” (Pitchfork)), and have created new works for vocal ensemble and instrumentalists. 2021 Participants and Program: Jenny Beck – Sown by Hand Tyler Eschendal – to sever and to splat Rebecca Gray – SO sorry for your loss Francisco del Pino – I…
Find out more »International Resource Centre for Performing Artists | Ten Singing Stars – New Generation at Online
The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists has selected the lineup of young professional singers to perform in this year’s edition of Ten Singing Stars – New Generation. They will take part in 90 minutes of operatic arias, with pianist Rachel Andrist on Friday, October 15, 7:30-9 p.m. EDT. The concert will broadcast live from Zoomer Hall, on The New Classical 96.3 FM, and live stream (no charge). The IRCPA received applications from 24 singers, aged 18-42. Of these, 14 were sopranos,…
Find out more »Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra | Parade on Bourbon Street (online)
Lucas Waldin, conductor Michael Kaeshammer, piano Boogie down to Bourbon Street with virtuoso Canadian pianist Michael Kaeshammer and your KWS. Featuring New Orleans standards like The Saints Go Marching In, St. James Infirmary, and The Basin Street Blues, this program brings a fresh take to music of the Big Easy.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | SEASON GALA: Follies in Concert
Starring Cynthia Dale, Eric McCormack, and Marcus Nance, and Ma-Anne Dionisio with Ben Heppner, Jenni Burke, Mary Lou Fallis, Denise Fergusson, Lorraine Foreman, Roger Honeywell, Jackie Richardson, and Avery Saltzman and featuring Gabe Antonnacci, Andrew Broderick, Jen Ryder-Shaw, and Kimberly-Ann Truong Book by James Goldman Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Richard Ouzounian Music Director Paul Sportelli Designer Nick Blais Choreography by Genny Sermonia Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Produced originally on Broadway by Harold Prince By special arrangements with Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | SEASON GALA: Follies in Concert
Starring Cynthia Dale, Eric McCormack, and Marcus Nance, and Ma-Anne Dionisio with Ben Heppner, Jenni Burke, Mary Lou Fallis, Denise Fergusson, Lorraine Foreman, Roger Honeywell, Jackie Richardson, and Avery Saltzman and featuring Gabe Antonnacci, Andrew Broderick, Jen Ryder-Shaw, and Kimberly-Ann Truong Book by James Goldman Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Richard Ouzounian Music Director Paul Sportelli Designer Nick Blais Choreography by Genny Sermonia Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Produced originally on Broadway by Harold Prince By special arrangements with Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International
Find out more »University of Toronto | Opera Arias with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (online)
All events will be live streamed via YouTube. Susan Graham will join us remotely. *Please note that in-person attendance will not be offered for these events. Stream link
Find out more »University of Toronto | Mélodie class with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (online)
All events will be live streamed via YouTube. Susan Graham will join us remotely. *Please note that in-person attendance will not be offered for these events. Stream link
Find out more »University of Toronto | Pants Roles class and Q&A with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (online)
All events will be live streamed via YouTube. Susan Graham will join us remotely. *Please note that in-person attendance will not be offered for these events. Stream link
Find out more »Music Toronto | Parker Quartet
Hard to believe the Parker Quartet is approaching its 20th season! Its many awards including Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 2009, and the chamber music Grammy in 2011 cemented a solid career. The quartet serves as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard. The quartet’s playing is known for its polish, energy and commitment. Schubert Quartet in C minor, D. 703, "Quartettsatz" Zosha Di Castri String Quartet No. 1 - - - Schumann Quartet in A major, Op. 41, No.…
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Terence Blanchard/Libretto by Kasi Lemmons Fire Shut Up in My Bones CONDUCTOR Yannick Nézet-Séguin CAST Will Liverman, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore SYNOPSIS New Production/Met Premiere. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Taylor Academy Showcase Concert
The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists presents concerts by the leading young classical musicians in Canada. Hear the stars of tomorrow! Free tickets will be available starting at 10am on Friday, October 15, 2021.
Find out more »Sinfonia Toronto | Souvenir
Souvenir SINFONIA TORONTO NURHAN ARMAN Conductor IGOR PIKAYZEN Violinist Remembrance and Renewal - We will celebrate re-opening with virtuoso fireworks, hear Toronto composer Alice Ping Yee Ho's tribute to health workers, then join Tchaikovsky on vacation in his beloved Florence Program ALICE PING YEE HO Resurrected Angel II world premiere BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major WIENIAWSKI Faust Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence Virtual concert ticket: BUY VIRTUAL TICKET Tickets for in-person attendance go…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Dover Quartet with Davóne Tines
Program: Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”) William Grant Still: Lyric Quartette Samuel Barber: “Dover Beach,” op. 3 Caroline Shaw: By and By Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, op. 18, no. 4 BUY TICKETS
Find out more »Music Toronto | David Jalbert
A pianist who “combines virtuosity with interpretive intelligence” (Artsfile), David Jalbert has established himself among the elite of a new generation of classical musicians. Named by the CBC as one of the 15 best Canadian pianists of all time, Mr. Jalbert performs regularly as a soloist and recitalist all over the world. His solo recordings, including Bach’s Goldberg Variations (which he played for us in 2014), have all garnered international praise. A national and international prize-winner, David Jalbert has won…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | Angel (online)
Angel is the culmination of Opera Atelier’s commission of original music by Edwin Huizinga and Christopher Bagan, exploring themes of creation, loss of innocence and enlightenment through the texts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Rainer Maria Rilke. Featuring Colin Ainsworth, Mireille Asselin, Measha Brueggergosman, Jesse Blumberg, Meghan Lindsay, John Tibbetts, and Douglas Williams plus excerpts from William Boyce, Matthew Locke, Max Richter and Antonio Vivaldi. With the Artist of Atelier Ballet, members of Tafelmusik (Elisa Citterio, Music Director) and D. Brainerd Blyden-Taylor with The Nathaniel…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | Angel (in-person theatre premiere)
Angel is a multi-disciplinary storytelling event that explores themes of creation, loss of innocence, isolation and redemption through the texts of John Milton's Paradise Lost and the mystic poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Marking the culmination of OA’s commission for new music for baroque instruments by Canadian composer Edwin HUIZINGA with Christopher BAGAN - created over the past 4 years and featured in performances in Toronto, Chicago, and Versailles - Angel will also showcase musical excerpts by Matthew Locke, William Boyce, and Max Richter’s Recomposed by Max Richter:…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | 21C Music Festival — Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà
Violinist Dubeau and her brilliant string ensemble perform works by Craig Armstrong, Ludovico Einaudi, Jean-Michel Blais, Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, and more. “Pulsation marks time, it infuses its rhythm in it, and it also evokes the heart. Just like those composers whose music calls out to me and who, with their unique signatures, mark time, our time. The music of the composers in this program speaks to me deeply – in it I have found a refuge and a wellspring of goodness.” - Angèle Dubeau Program: Craig Armstrong: Far From the Madding Crowd Jean-Michel Blais: Nostos Steve Reich: Duet Ólafur Arnalds: Doria 1440 Eulogy for evolution Happiness Does not Wait Armand Amar: Planet Ocean Human Uno Helmersson: The Grand Master Suite Alex…
Find out more »Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Music and Magic (online)
Open your eyes and ears to the world of illusion and enchantment in this new digital concert blending two captivating art forms. Music and Magic delves into the world of 18th-century English conjurer Isaac Fawkes, a contemporary of Handel. The first magician to take his act from the streets of London to the stage, Fawkes performed before King George II at the Haymarket Theatre — the same venue where Handel presented his operas for royalty and the public alike. This film…
Find out more »Amici Chamber Ensemble | American Berserk
American Berserk celebrates the composers who changed the face of American music: the “American Original” Charles Ives, and Pulitzer Prize winners John Adams and John Corigliano. Featuring guest artists Jonathan Crow, Yolanda Bruno, and Alejandro Valdepeñas. This intimate concert will be presented at Bathurst 918 Centre for a limited audience. Program: John Adams – Gnarly Buttons for clarinet & piano TJ Anderson – Spirit Songs for cello and piano John Adams – John’s Alleged Book of Danced for String Quartet…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (online)
After Buoso Donati—the patriarch of a Florentine family—dies of old age, his remaining relatives are more interested in getting paid than in paying their respects. They hire local schemer Gianni Schicchi to sort out the estate, but get much more than they bargained for with the quick-thinking and enterprising Schicchi. Staged by British theatre director Amy Lane, this lighthearted, brilliantly paced comedy stars rising South Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park alongside baritone Roland Wood. The famous one-act opera features some…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica: From Bach to Piazzolla
Program celebrates 100th Anniversary of Astor Piazzolla and 75th birthday of Gidon Kremer with a special homage to our own Glenn Gould. Gidon Kremer, violin Georgijs Osokins, piano Per-Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon Andrei Pushkarev, vibraphone Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra) PROGRAM: Hommage à Piazzolla Valentin Silvestrov: Hommage to J.S.B. for violin and vibraphone Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058 Astor Piazzolla: Three Pieces for Piano and Strings Two pieces from Art of Instrumentation (based on Bach works and dedicated to Glenn Gould) Johann Sebastian…
Find out more »November 2021
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir | Coming to Carry Me Home (in-person + online)
TMC launches a season of hope with a concert that speaks to our search to find our place, a sense of home and belonging. The 100+ choristers of the TMC come together with a chamber orchestra from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and soloists Jonelle Sills, soprano, and Brett Polegato, baritone, to bring you two glorious choral works. The Chariot Jubilee by Nathaniel Dett Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms
Find out more »Confluence Concerts | Bach Cello Suites: Part 3
Enjoy beautiful playing with a wide variety of approaches and interpretations. Features Keiran Campbell, Ryan Davis (“Radia”), Andrew Downing, Elinor Frey, Michelle Tang and Winona Zelenka. The third program in the series features two performers on instruments other than the cello. Andrew Downing, a Confluence Artistic Associate and Juno Award-winning musician, will play Suite No. 2 on the double bass. Ryan Davis, a young composer-performer included in CBC’s “30 Canadian classical musicians under 30” list for 2021, will play Suite No. 5…
Find out more »University of Toronto | Thursdays at Noon: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Opera School
In the fall of 1946, an unprecedented and unique course of instruction was introduced into the Senior School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Conceived by its first director, Arnold Walter, the birth of the Opera School - now the Opera Division of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music - marked not only the beginning of operatic training in Canada but the very genesis of opera produced in Toronto. In celebration of our 75th anniversary, we reflect on…
Find out more »Against The Grain Theatre | Opera Pub (On Hold)
AtG’s Opera Pubs are improvised, wild nights that offer up your favourite operatic arias and ensembles, performed by both established and emerging opera talent hosted by the extraordinary David Eliakis. Opera Pubs are the perfect introduction for newbies and a welcome break for opera vets who want to see something “a little different.” What’s more fun than opera and a beer with friends?
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | The Glenn Gould School Chamber Opera: Ana Sokolović’s Svadba
Students from The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program perform Serbian-born Quebec-based composer Ana Sokolović’s Svadba (Wedding) for six female voices a cappella and occasional percussion accompaniment. This tour de force contemporary opera about a bride-to-be, Milica, and five friends enjoying a prenuptial evening of celebration, friendship, and rivalry, but also solidarity and sisterhood, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Opera. The vibrant and exciting production will be directed by Jennifer Tarver with Peter Tiefenbach serving as Music Director.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Jerusalem String Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth
Program: Anton Bruckner: Adagio from String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet in A Major, op. 48 Johannes Brahms: String Sextet in B flat Major, op. 18 BUY TICKETS
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | The Glenn Gould School Chamber Opera: Ana Sokolović’s Svadba
Students from The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program perform Serbian-born Quebec-based composer Ana Sokolović’s Svadba (Wedding) for six female voices a cappella and occasional percussion accompaniment. This tour de force contemporary opera about a bride-to-be, Milica, and five friends enjoying a prenuptial evening of celebration, friendship, and rivalry, but also solidarity and sisterhood, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Opera. The vibrant and exciting production will be directed by Jennifer Tarver with Peter Tiefenbach serving as Music Director.
Find out more »Trio Arkel | Fantasia (in-person)
Sunday, November 7, 2021 (live performance, limited audience) Sunday, November 14, 2021 (virtual performance release) Jean Cras String Trio Schubert Fantasia arr. for piano quartet Lekeu Piano Quartet For more information and to pay what you can, visit Eventbrite
Find out more »Music Toronto | Stephen Hough
It is almost impossible to exaggerate about Stephen Hough. Pianist, composer, writer, painter, teacher. Winner of awards both musical and other: the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’Or, eight Gramophone Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship (called the “genius” award), the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, and in 2014, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Hough resides in London where he is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music; he also teaches at his alma mater, the Royal Northern…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | A Welcome Return: Gimeno & Your TSO
Gustavo Gimeno’s long-anticipated in-person début as Music Director promises to be an emotional concert experience remembered for years to come as audiences return to Roy Thomson Hall for the first time since March 2020. Anthony Barfield’s Invictus—a 2020 composition that reflects on this unique moment in time and delivers a stirring ode to humanity’s capacity for resilience—serves as the season-opening fanfare, while Jazz Age spirit and celebratory flourish ring out in Hindemith’s blazing Concert Music for Strings and Brass. And Schubert’s…
Find out more »The National Ballet of Canada | Angels’ Atlas & Serenade
Angels’ Atlas Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite created Angels’ Atlas for The National Ballet of Canada in March 2020 to rapturous reviews. The ballet unfolds against a morphing wall of light that carries the illusion of depth and a sense of the natural world. Here, the dancing body becomes a sign of humanity’s impermanence and – equally – its vitality within a vast, unknowable world. Set to original music by Owen Belton and choral pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Morten Lauridsen, Angels’ Atlas is a…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | A Welcome Return: Gimeno & Your TSO
Gustavo Gimeno’s long-anticipated in-person début as Music Director promises to be an emotional concert experience remembered for years to come as audiences return to Roy Thomson Hall for the first time since March 2020. Anthony Barfield’s Invictus—a 2020 composition that reflects on this unique moment in time and delivers a stirring ode to humanity’s capacity for resilience—serves as the season-opening fanfare, while Jazz Age spirit and celebratory flourish ring out in Hindemith’s blazing Concert Music for Strings and Brass. And Schubert’s…
Find out more »Sinfonia Toronto | Beethoven & Mozart
Beethoven & Mozart SINFONIA TORONTO NURHAN ARMAN Conductor JARRED DUNN Pianist Healing Classics - The intensity and joy in one of Mozart's most dramatic symphonies will inspire us all after a pensive prayer by Toronto composer Larysa Kuzmenko and a buoyant Beethoven Piano Concerto. Program BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 chamber version LARYSA KUZMENKO A Prayer MOZART Symphony No. 40 Tickets for in-person attendance go on sale September 15. Virtual concert ticket: $15 BUY VIRTUAL TICKET Tickets for in-person attendance…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Espiral by OKAN (online)
With a name that means “heart” in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, the Toronto-based women-led group OKAN crafts songs that explore immigration, courage, and love. Having received JUNO, Canadian Folk Music, and Independent Music Award nominations for their debut album Sombras, OKAN's sophomore offering, Espiral delves deeper into the group's rich Cuban roots, finding renewed inspiration in that musical heritage. In this concert, OKAN performs selections from Espiral, their 2021 Juno Award-winning album, fusing jazz, folk, and global rhythms with Afro-Cuban roots.…
Find out more »The Elora Singers | Bach & Handel: Music for Advent & Christmas (in-person)
The Elora Singers present Bach’s Advent Cantatas and the Christmas excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, with chamber orchestra and soloists from the ranks of the choir.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Skratch Bastid and special guests Andrew Forde & re.verse
Skratch Bastid is a world-renowned DJ, producer, and three-time winner of the coveted Scribble Jam DJ Battle, known for his comfort and versatility in different styles — hip hop, funk, disco, club, rock, and just about anything that makes people dance. Joining him are Toronto-based violinist Andrew Forde and re.verse, making for a night of slamming turntablism meets live.
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | A Welcome Return: Gimeno & Your TSO
Gustavo Gimeno’s long-anticipated in-person début as Music Director promises to be an emotional concert experience remembered for years to come as audiences return to Roy Thomson Hall for the first time since March 2020. Anthony Barfield’s Invictus—a 2020 composition that reflects on this unique moment in time and delivers a stirring ode to humanity’s capacity for resilience—serves as the season-opening fanfare, while Jazz Age spirit and celebratory flourish ring out in Hindemith’s blazing Concert Music for Strings and Brass. And Schubert’s…
Find out more »Trio Arkel | Fantasia (online)
Sunday, November 7, 2021 (live performance, limited audience) Sunday, November 14, 2021 (virtual performance release) Jean Cras String Trio Schubert Fantasia arr. for piano quartet Lekeu Piano Quartet For more information and to pay what you can, visit Eventbrite
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Charles Settle
Percussionist Charles Settle, Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Principal Percussion and a faculty member at The Glenn Gould School, is joined by GGS faculty members Jeffrey Beecher and Andrew McCandless as well as current percussion students at the GGS, for this fascinating program. Program: Joseph Tompkins: To Varèse Thierry De Mey: Musique de tables Andy Akiho: -intuition) (Expectation Barbara Croall Assiginaak: Waaban Kaija Saariaho: Ciel étoilé Bob Becker: Mudra
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | String Showcase
Some of the most stunningly beautiful works in all of classical music will stir the soul as the TSO’s fabulous strings and harp take centre stage. Mahler’s heart-rending Adagietto from his Symphony No. 5 utterly captivates and seemingly stops time. An 11th-century poem by Omar Khayyám inspired pop-influenced grooves in the music of Dinuk Wijeratne, and Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Rains of Ash and Embers extols Canada’s natural wonders while contemplating our role in preserving them. A brief but life-changing moment between two young lovers plays out…
Find out more »Music Toronto | St. Lawrence Quartet [Cancelled]
Established in Toronto in 1989, the SLSQ came to Music TORONTO in 1992 and returns annually. The St. Lawrence String Quartet has developed an undisputed reputation as one of the world's great ensembles. The quartet has been the Ensemble-in-Residence at Stanford University since 1998. Fiercely committed to collaboration with living composers, the SLSQ also has a special dedication to the string quartets of Haydn. The SLSQ combines exuberance with virtuosity and imagination. The 76’ers: A Haydn Revolution Haydn Four Op.…
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