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February 2019
Opera by Request | Menotti: the Telephone and Donizetti: Rita
Opera by Request presents Menotti’s The Telephone and Donizetti’s Rita, semi-staged with piano accompaniment, Saturday, January 19, 7:30pm, College St. United Church, 452 College St. (Bathurst). All tickets $20.00. Phone 416 455-2365 for reservations and information. The Telephone: Ben…………..Mark Towstego, baritone Lucy………….Tsu-Ching Yu, soprano Rita: Rita………….Tsu-Ching Yu, soprano Beppe………Avery Krisman, tenor Gasparo……Larry Tozer, baritone Mark Schonberg, stage director William Shookhoff, music director and pianist Details, here.
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company| Vocal Series: Les Adieux: Samuel Chan
Baritone Samuel Chan bids farewell to the COC Ensemble Studio with an all Schubert program. Joined by Stéphane Mayer on piano, they explore the Schulze Lieder and Schubert's heartfelt and insightful world of songs.
Find out more »Glenn Gould Foundation | The Glenn Gould Prize Celebrates Jessye Norman
This Gala concert and award ceremony in honour of opera star and activist Jessye Norman features performances by the COC Orchestra, Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, mezzo Wallis Giunta. Viggo Mortensen, Chair of The Glenn Gould Prize Jury. Jessye Norman will be present to accept the Twelfth Glenn Gould Prize. 7:30 pm. From $45. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Alisa Weilerstein
Bartók’s thrilling concerto justifies its fanciful title by placing the entire orchestra in the spotlight. With this bold and witty music, the artists of the TSO demonstrate everything they are capable of. Alisa Weilerstein, one of today’s most talented cellists, lays bare the soul of a late and lean Shostakovich masterwork, and TSO favourite Thomas Dausgaard brings the expressive prelude to fellow Dane Rued Langgaard’s 1920s opera, Antikrist. (Pictured: Alisa Weilerstein, cello) Concert running time is approximately two hours including a…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Vocal Series: Les Adieux: Poèmes pour Mi
Soprano Lauren Eberwein bids farewell to the COC Ensemble Studio with a performance of Olivier Messiaen's major song cycle, Poèmes pour Mi, which was written for his first wife, the violinist and composer Claire Delbos whom he nicknamed “Mi”. Pianist Rachael Kerr completes the program with Maurice Ravel’s piano solo Jeux d'eau.
Find out more »Tafelmusik | TALES OF TWO CITIES: THE LEIPZIG-DAMASCUS COFFEE HOUSE
Elisa Citterio, Music Director Conceived, scripted and programmed by Alison Mackay Maryem Tollar, Narrator & Vocalist Alon Nashman, Narrator Celebrate the rich musical traditions of East and West, and the renewed dialogue between those traditions in contemporary, multicultural Toronto. Alison Mackay’s musical vision of the links between 18th-century Saxony and Syria became one of the most cherished and talked-about projects in Tafelmusik’s history when it was first seen in 2016. Now it returns for our 40th anniversary season, reuniting musicians from Western…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | The Angel Speaks
Opera Atelier presents a brand-new, hour-long concert experience melding musical masterpieces by Henry Purcell with baroque and contemporary dancing — and a new Canadian commission by composer Edwin Huizinga. Don’t miss this Toronto premiere of our most recent Royal Chapel performance. With Mireille Asselin (soprano), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), Artists of Atelier Ballet and members of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Following the performance, join us at an informal reception to meet the artists. Light refreshments/cash bar available. (9pm to 10pm) Enter through…
Find out more »Art of Time Ensemble | Best of Music
On the occasion of our 20th Anniversary, Art of Time Ensemble are presenting two full programs of their best and most memorable musical performances. The Songs Program features our best arrangements of popular music performed by a luminary group of vocalists, including Sarah Slean, Hawksley Workman, and Martin Tielli. Songs by Charles Trenet, Bruce Cockburn, Queen, Jacques Brel, and many more are presented in arrangements for an ensemble of top Canadian instrumentalists. The Classical Program includes the innovative Source & Inspiration format in which a Franz Schubert piano trio is paired…
Find out more »National Arts Centre Orchestra | Romantic Chopin
Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra returns for its much-anticipated annual engagement at Roy Thomson Hall. Under the inspiring baton of Music Director Alexander Shelley, they thrill you with all the joyful abandon and elegiac musings of Robert Schumann’s refreshing “Spring” Symphony. Guest soloist French pianist David Fray brings his lyrical talents to the brilliant and exquisite Second Piano Concerto of Chopin. (Pictured: David Fray, piano) Concert running time is approximately two hours including a 20-minute intermission. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | Seiler & Chung
BBC Music magazine states, violinist “ Mayumi Seiler brings an exceptional blend of precision with tonal generosity, finesse with enthusiasm.” She performs with pianist Jeanie Chung as well as with the Glenn Gould School String Ensemble. Program: Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G Minor, L. 140 Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, op. 100 Alain Ridout: Ferdinand the Bull Franz Schubert: Rondo in A Major for Violin and Strings, D. 438
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Come Together: 50 Years After Abbey Road
Come Together: 50 Years After Abbey Road A Symphonic tribute to the best in British rock. Sunday, February 24, 2019 - 3:00pm Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Rock at the Symphony: Orchestra Toronto presents a tribute to seminal British rock of the 60s and 70s. We are excited to present the world premiere of Richard Herriott’s new rock concerto, An Electric Organ, a Ladder, and a Persian Rug, inspired by the music of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. And for…
Find out more »Schulich Singers | A Clear Midnight
A Clear Midnight Jean-Sébastien Vallée, artistic director FRANCIS CHOINIÈRE* A Clear Midnight (premiere) Works by JOHN ESTACIO, JOHN TAVENER, UǴIS PRAULIŅŠ, et al. *Composer in Residence Free Admission
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Celebrating our Diversity
Celebrating our Diversity Voice Studies students present a concert celebrating the diverse music of their heritage. Tue Feb 26 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Made possible in part by a generous gift from Roy and Marjorie Linden
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Calidore String Quartet
Formed in 2010, the Calidore String Quartet, violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry, and cellist Estelle Choi, perform Haydn, Shaw, and Beethoven. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park $40, $25 senior, $10 student | BUY TICKETS ONLINE or call 416-408-0208 (U of T students admitted free with a valid T-Card, space permitting.) The Calidore String Quartet are generously supported by the James D. Stewart Quartet in Residence program.
Find out more »Toronto Mendelssohn Choir | Handel and Haydn
Enjoy two great 18th-century choral-orchestral works in this program of pure celebration, featuring Handel’s beloved Coronation Anthems and Haydn’s deeply-felt Mass in time of war, both with a full orchestra. David Fallis, conductor Mireille Asselin, soprano Christina Stelmacovich, mezzo-soprano Asitha Tennekoon, tenor Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone Orchestra Tickets, here.
Find out more »Canadian Children’s Opera Company | The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen Music by John Greer; Libretto by Jeremy James Taylor Canadian Children’s Opera Company Originally commissioned by the CCOC in 1993, and revived here in 2001, this classic Canadian children’s opera has been updated by the composer to fully employ the forces of the current CCOC, and will also receive a completely new production. The opera features the ~150 members of the CCOC, with a fully professional design and production team. Stage Director Rob Kempson joins the CCOC’s…
Find out more »Women’s Musical Club of Toronto | Joel Quarrington and Friends
Joel Quarrington, double bass; David Jalbert, piano; Yehonatan Berick, violin; Jethro Marks, viola; Carol Sirois, cello Joel Quarrington has been Principal Bassist with the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra, UK. A Toronto native, he graduated from the University of Toronto, with the Eaton Scholarship as the school’s most outstanding graduate. Joel is a winner of the Geneva International Competition and the CBC Talent Competition, and has made solo appearances across Canada, the…
Find out more »March 2019
Elmer Iseler Singers | Vancouver Chamber Choir: Music from Sea to Sea
Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams, Conductor Present The Vancouver Chamber Choir Jon Washburn, Conductor We team up with long-time friends and colleagues, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and their esteemed conductor, Jon Washburn, in a concert celebrating Jon’s 48 years as Artistic Director of the VCC as he transitions to a new role with the group as Conductor Emeritus. We are excited to sing great choral music with these wonderful voices once again. Works by Britten, Kodaly, Debussy, Schafer, MacMillan, Gjeilo and Jon Washburn…
Find out more »National Ballet of Canada | Apollo & Night & The Sea Above, The Sky Below & Paquita
George Balanchine’s Apollo is one of the signal moments in both the choreographer’s oeuvre and in the legacy of cultural modernism. The famous collaboration between Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky produced some of ballet’s most legendary works, and perhaps none was as groundbreaking nor realized their aims of a neo-classical art form, as this 1928 ballet. The work almost singlehandedly established a new aesthetic that brought the language of classical ballet into a modern context, merging the past with the future in a…
Find out more »Opera York | Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart March 1, 2019 @ 7.30pm March 3, 2019 @ 2:00pm Artistic Director, Geoffrey Butler Stage Director, Renee Salewski Main Stage, Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Domoney Artist Management | Le Comte Ory
DAM Concert Opera presents Rossini’s Le Comte Ory in a semi-staged version, with interactive narration by acclaimed director François Racine, who leads us into the castle. This zany tale begins with Countess Adele (sung by soprano Caitlin Wood) who is left alone in her castle while the men are away fighting. Add a mysterious hermit, a lovelorn page, a stern tutor, and soldiers disguised as nuns who break into the castle and you have a great blend of comedy and…
Find out more »Toronto Chamber Choir | Convivencia: Music Across Three Faiths
Convivencia Music Across Three Faiths Jews, Muslims, and Christians co-existed in relative peace during the Convivencia period in Medieval and Renaissance Spain. A surprising amount of cultural amalgamation took place in the arts: Classic Greek texts were translated simultaneously into Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin. Architecture blended elements of synagogues, mosques, and cathedrals. The music of all three religions also flourished, with each borrowing stylistic elements from the others. Blending Sephardic folk songs, classical Arabic melodies, and Spanish polyphony, this dynamic concert revels…
Find out more »Marlboro Music | Musicians from Marlboro
After a successful East Coast tour in 2018, the Ravel Piano Trio returns for performances across the U.S. and Canada. A Haydn piano trio and Kodály’s charming Serenade round out the program alongside the world premiere of a duet by Ken Ueno for Grammy-winning violist Kim Kashkashian and Avery Fisher Grant recipient Tessa Lark. Former Cherubini Quartet member Christoph Richter, Ying Quartet violinist Robin Scott, and 2018 Montreal Competition winner Zoltán Fejérvári complete this singular ensemble. Robin Scott, violin; Tessa…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki has won acclaim for his extraordinary interpretive maturity, distinctive sound, and poetic sensibility. The New York Times has called him “a pianist who makes every note count.” An alumnus of The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School, Lisiecki’s insightful interpretations, refined technique, and natural affinity for art give him a musical voice that belies his age. The remarkable 22-year-old musician made his debut in the main auditorium at New York’s Carnegie Hall in January 2016. In its rave review, The New York…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Vocal Series: Le Récital des Anges: Songs of Ian Cusson
VOCAL SERIES Ian Cusson, a Canadian composer and pianist of Métis and French Canadian descent, presents a showcase of two of his song cycles: Five Orchestral Songs on Poems of Marilyn Dumont sung by Kwagiulth and Stó:lo First Nations mezzo-soprano Marion Newman, and the world premiere of Le Récital des Anges on poems of Émile Nelligan sung by Canadian mezzo-soprano Marjorie Maltais. Ian Cusson, piano/composer Marion Newman, mezzo-soprano Marjorie Maltais, mezzo-sopranoMARCH 5, 2019 AT 12:00PM
Find out more »Music Toronto | Danny Driver
One of Britain’s most respected and versatile pianists, Danny Driver made his Toronto debut on this series in November 2016 and we discovered his “impeccable technique and musicianship” (Gramophone). Most of his 15 recordings are on Hyperion – a label he shares with Marc André Hamelin and Stephen Hough, company in which he definitely belongs. In addition to a busy performing career, Danny Driver was appointed Professor of Piano at London's Royal College of Music in fall 2016 C P…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | The Second City Guide to the Symphony
Back by popular demand! The legendary Second City comedy theatre and the TSO team up once again to present this hit show, filled with sketch comedy, satire, songs, improvisation, and, of course, incredible classical music. This light-hearted comic performance will take on all things orchestral, from the colourful musicians to the mighty maestro, from send-ups of classical music history and conventions to the manner and mannerisms of our beloved audiences. (Pictured: Colin Mochrie, host) This program is the equivalent to a…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | U of T 12tet with Tony Malaby, saxophone
Arrangements by faculty and students of the music of featured guest saxophone artist Tony Malaby. Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park $20, $10 student | BUY TICKETS ONLINE or call 416-408-0208 (U of T students admitted free with a valid T-Card, space permitting.)
Find out more »National Ballet of Canada | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Few books of any kind are as unique and have left such an imprint on culture as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Beneath its surface blend of fantasy, nonsense, outlandish characters and a vivid dreamworld—an irresistible blend, especially for children—the book has a subterranean reach extending into the realms of philosophy, language, psychology and even mathematics. This has always made it an attractive text for other creative artists and choreographers are no exception. The renowned British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has…
Find out more »Orpheus Choir of Toronto | Raising Her Voice
A ground-breaking celebration of Canadian artistry, featuring an array of choral works by female composers, and the premiere of four commissioned Canadian works. Orpheus partners with Diaspora Dialogues in a unique mentoring of acclaimed female composers and poets with emerging female artists to highlight the very best of established and undiscovered Canadian talent. This evening honours the woman’s expressive and singular perspective in song! Orpheus Choir Orpheus Chamber Ensemble Friday March 8, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m. Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300…
Find out more »Aspirare Vocal Collective | Reflection & Hope: Howells Requiem
Howells Requiem: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Silence and Music Gabriel Jackson, Ite Missa Est Charles Villiers Stanford, The Blue Bird and more… Aspirare; a Toronto-based vocal collective focused on the exceptional performance of choral chamber music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Details, here.
Find out more »Toronto Consort | Four Quarters of Jerusalem
March 8 & 9, 2019 8 pm. Guest Artistic Director Nina Stern, with Rose of the Compass Music has the power to unite. Welcome critically acclaimed early- and world-music ensemble Rose of the Compass as they present an extraordinary program that celebrates the diversity of faith and musical traditions of the city of Jerusalem. Listeners will travel through the Muslim, Christian, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters as oud, kanun, recorders, and chalumeau act as gateways to ancient lands – creating a diverse soundscape while unifying us…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
The deeply humanist and thought-provoking contents of Shostakovich’s Fifth have made it the most performed symphony of the 20th century. New Zealand’s Gemma New, Music Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, guides you through its multitude of fascinations. Two TSO section principals coax all the airy beauty from a heavenly double concerto by Mozart. (Pictured: Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton, TSO Principal Harp) Concert running time is approximately two hours including a 20-minute intermission. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Chamber Music Series: Hidden Treasures
Nuné Melik, violin Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, pianoMARCH 12, 2019 AT 12:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Despite a thousand years of cultural history, the music of Armenia remains little known. This concert is a celebration of the creativity and resilience of the Armenian people, whose music bears the mark of both the genocide and the country’s folklore. Accompanied by Michel-Alexandre Broekaert on the piano, violinist Nuné Melik will present the fruits of her quest to share the music of her people. Allow this expressive…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Vocal Series: Opera for All Ages
Artists of the COC Ensemble StudioMARCH 14, 2019 AT 12:00 PM VOCAL SERIES Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio playfully explore opera in a lively interactive March Break presentation. Audience members of all ages can listen to, learn about, and try their hand at the fascinating art of opera. Fun for the whole family!
Find out more »Tafelmusik | Close Encounters: Café Paris
Tafelmusik’s popular chamber series returns to Temerty Theatre in the TELUS Centre. This season, we will transport you to three 18th-century European cafés to enjoy the musical delights offered there. Springtime in Paris! In March we may still be shivering in Toronto, but let us transport you to the warm embrace of a Parisian café to enjoy an afternoon of musical delights. Baroque Paris saw the establishment of the café chantant (home of the French chanson) and of the café-concert, where patrons might hear…
Find out more »Gallery 345 | Impetuoso: Elizabeth Reid and Alison Cerutti
IMPETUOSO Elizabeth Reid, viola Alison Cerutti, piano Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7:30 PM $25/$10 students (cash only) Violist Elizabeth Reid and pianist Alison Bruce Cerutti return to Toronto to perform Gallery 345 for the third time. The first half of this concert includes Canadian repertoire, including a new viola sonata composed in 2018 by David Jaeger, and the music of composer Rose Bolton. The concert ends with the Rebecca Clarke Sonata for Viola and Piano, one of the most beloved masterpieces of the 20th-century viola…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | La finta giardiniera
In 1775 a teenage Mozart caught the operatic world by storm when he wrote La finta giardiniera, his youthful masterpiece of disguise, deception and the redemptive power of love. Five years later, he revised it as a Singspiel which remained the only known complete score until the Italian version was rediscovered in the late 1970s. Following his enormous success conducting Orphee aux Enfers, Russell Braun returns to the podium to lead the singers of U of T Opera in the original Italian version of La…
Find out more »Music Toronto | Lafayette and Saguenay Quartets
The Lafayette has achieved more than 30 years as an ensemble – without a single change of personnel. Coaching with major quartets followed by important awards led to an enduring career. The LSQ have been artists-in-residence at the University of Victoria since 1991. The Saguenay (formed in 1989 as the Alcan) has developed a reputation for excellence throughout Canada and internationally since its formation over twenty five years ago. Based in Chicoutimi, Québec, it receives the unconditional support of the Orchestre symphonique…
Find out more »Gallery 345 | The Art of the Piano: Vedrana Subotic [CANCELLED]
NOTE: This event has been cancelled. The Art of the Piano: Vedrana Subotic Saturday, March 16, 2019, at 8 pm Tickets: $30/$10 Student (Cash only at the door) Program Ballade No. 3 in A - flat major Op.47 - Frederic Chopin 4 Mazurkas Op.17 - Frederic Chopin 7 Etudes - Stevan Mokranjac Sonata in E- flat major Hob.XVI: 52 - Franz Josef Haydn Sonata op. 26 - Ludwig von Beethoven Tickets, here.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | McCandless Presents: Songs for the Trumpet
“Wherever Andrew plays, he’s considered one of the great stars of the trumpet.” (Maestro Peter Oundjian) Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Trumpet Andrew McCandless presents trumpet works, Bramwell Tovey’s Songs of the Paradise Saloon, and transcriptions of songs originally for voice by Bernstein, de Falla, and others. He is joined by pianist Sonya Sim. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Mooredale Concerts | Christian Blackshaw, piano
After winning gold medals at Royal College Manchester and Royal Academy in London, Christian Blackshaw was the first British pianist to study at the Leningrad Conservatoire. He later worked closely with Sir Clifford Curzon in London. He has performed with leading orchestras including London Philharmonic, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Rotterdam Philharmonic. He has worked with illustrious conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Vocal Series: The Next Wave
Free Concert Series: The Next WaveMusique 3 FemmesMARCH 19, 2019 AT 12:00 PM VOCAL SERIES Musique 3 Femmes seeks to identify and support future female leaders of classical music. In this performance, they highlight winners from the inaugural Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes, a new initiative to develop operatic creations by teams of emerging female composers and librettists in Canada.
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back — In Concert
“You must feel the Force around you....” The battle for the galaxy intensifies in this thrilling fifth episode of the unfolding saga. As Imperial Forces launch an all-out attack on the Rebel Alliance, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) flee to Cloud City where they are captured by Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) journeys to the mysterious, marshy planet of Dagobah, where the wise Jedi Master Yoda teaches the young hero the ways of the Force.…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | The Magic Flute
The gifted vocal students from The Glenn Gould School and The Royal Conservatory Orchestra present The Magic Flute, conducted by Nathan Brock and directed by Joel Ivany. In Mozart's masterful comedy about love, truth, and the pursuit of enlightenment, prince Tamino sets off to rescue Pamina, the beautiful daughter of the Queen of the Night, from the mysterious Sarastro. But with the help of the birdcatcher Papageno and three Spirits as their guide, Tamino discovers an even bigger adventure, and is…
Find out more »Tafelmusik | Bach St. Matthew Passion
Masaaki Suzuki, guest director Hannah Morrison, soprano Terry Wey, countertenor James Gilchrist, tenor/Evangelist Stephan MacLeod, bass-baritone/Jesus Tyler Duncan, baritone Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Members of the Toronto Children’s Chorus World-renowned Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki directs the composer’s iconic masterpiece. In a standout highlight of this anniversary season, Masaaki Suzuki, multi-award-winning conductor and founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, makes his Tafelmusik debut conducting one of Western culture’s most iconic masterpieces: Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Bach’s musical telling of Christ’s final hours is…
Find out more »Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra | It’s All About the Tunes
Join the Etobicoke Philharmonic on Friday, March 22, 2019 Big works, big composers, big tunes: Come and be swept away by the greatest melodies ever written! Louis Applebaum Stratford Fanfare No. 3 Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Guest Artist: Arthur Ozolins, Piano Tickets here.
Find out more »National Ballet of Canada | Erik Bruhn Competition
First held in 1988, The International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize has showcased the talents of some of the best young dancers from the finest ballet companies in the world. The competitors from each company are between the ages of 18 and 23 and perform in a classical pas de deux and variations and a new contemporary pas de deux or solo work. The Erik Bruhn Prize gives audiences the chance to see some of the most exceptional young…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Choirs In Concert: A Celebration of Faculty of Music Composers
A Celebration of Faculty of Music Composers David Fallis, Lori-Anne Dolloff, conductors To celebrate the Faculty of Music's 100th anniversary, the MacMillan Singers and Women's Chamber Choir present choral works from across the century by faculty and students. Selections will include music by MacMillan, Kuzmenko, Holman, and emerging student composers. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen's Park Tickets, here. (U of T students admitted free with a valid T-Card, space permitting.)
Find out more »Esprit Orchestra | Grand Slam!
GRAND SLAM! Sunday, March 24, 2019 8:00pm Concert / 7:15pm Pre-Concert Chat Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor St. W. PROGRAM Christopher Thornborrow (Canada) Trompe l'œil (2019)** Maki Ishii (Japan) Afro-Concerto (1982) Unsuk Chin (Korea) Cello Concerto (2006; rev. 2013)* *Canadian Premiere ** World Premiere commissioned by Esprit with generous support from Ontario Arts Council Music by Maki Ishii and a World Premiere of music by Christopher Thornborrow combine in a concert of maximum resonance and musical excitement. Single Tickets on sale as…
Find out more »Tafelmusik | Bach’s St John Passion
Directed by Ivars Taurins Jana Miller, soprano Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano Charles Daniels, tenor William Sharp, baritone Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Turbulent, intense, and tender, a Passion for our times. Bach’s St John Passion shocked the Church fathers in Leipzig at its premiere with its intensity and fervour. It's just that intensity that makes it so relevant in today’s highly charged and turbulent times. Harrowing, passionate, and tender by turn, the St John Passion reflects our world as well as Bach's. If the St Matthew Passion stresses the harmony…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Schubert’s Unfinished
Revered conductor Günther Herbig, the TSO’s music director from 1989 to 1994, fulfills an eagerly anticipated return engagement with a program that he leads with supreme insight and authority: Schubert’s beloved, achingly melancholy “Unfinished” Symphony, and the vast, exalting quest for emotional fulfillment that is Bruckner’s Ninth. Concert running time is approximately two hours including a 20-minute intermission. Tickets, here.
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize Winners’ Recital
Winners' Recital featuring baritone Korin Thomas-Smith and pianist Joy Lee
Find out more »Toronto City Opera | La Traviata
LA TRAVIATA FOR OUR TIMES One could imagine to the modern eye a 19th century classic like La Traviata would be only a sweet echo of a distant time. But nothing can be further from the truth. The great composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was captured by a contemporary story about people in Paris. The premiere was done in contemporary dress to bring the audience face to face with situations and emotions from their own times and lives. In that spirit we…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | U of T Opera: Glancing Back, Looking Ahead
As the Faculty of Music celebrates its centenary, U of T Opera offers a program of costumed and staged scenes sampling highlights from over one hundred operas produced since operatic studies began at the University of Toronto. Tickets, here or call 416-408-0208 (U of T students admitted free with a valid T-Card, space permitting.)
Find out more »Trio Arkel | Into the Fire
Trio Arkel is the collaboration of three women at the top of the classical music world in Canada, each a soloist and leader in her own right: Marie Berard is Concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra; Teng Li is the Principal Violist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Winona Zelenka is the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Since 2008 they have joined forces to bring a wide variety of classical chamber music to the Toronto public, enlisting…
Find out more »Tapestry Opera | Songbook IX
Canada’s brightest emerging artists perform alongside Soprano Jacqueline Woodley (M’Dea Undone, Oksana G., Tapestry Briefs: Winter Shorts) and pianist Andrea Grant (Wexford Musical Festival). A 3-day Masterclass, New Opera 101, culminates in three performances where the opera professionals of tomorrow stretch their voices alongside their mentors. Hear highlights from Tapestry’s 39-year collection of absurd, tragic, and beautiful Canadian repertoire in the intimate Ernest Balmer Studio. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Fred Penner
For more than 25 years, legendary Canadian entertainer Fred Penner has been imparting his trademark message of joy and inspiration to children of all ages. Don’t miss the gentle giant live in concert with the TSO—an uplifting, must-see program full of Penner’s big-hearted music and boundless positivity! (Pictured: Fred Penner, vocalist) Come to the North Lobby a half hour before the concert starts to see the amazing musical puppets of our lobby performers, Soli & Rob! TTC advisory There will…
Find out more »Canadian Sinfonietta | Rivka Golani, viola
Saturday March 30, 2019 @ 8 PM Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. Featuring: RIVKA GOLANI, viola Program: David Jaeger: The Raven Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra WORLD PREMIERE Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae, Op. 48a for solo viola and strings Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (chamber version) Tickets, here.
Find out more »Amici Chamber Ensemble | Mystical and the Macabre
March 31, 2019 A Musical Expression of Opposites A unique program featuring the mystical juxtaposed with the macabre and an exploration of the overwhelming opposite feelings that come to all of us on a daily basis, expressed in a musical way. Inspired by Amici’s past Levant concert in which the audience participated by meditating through Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances, in order to experience the music in a new, spiritual way. Music: Malcom Forsyth – Phantom Sketches for violin, clarinet and marimba…
Find out more »Pax Christi Chorale | Miziwe…(Everywhere…)
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano Justin Welsh, baritone Rod Nettagog, singer, dancer Barbara Croall, voice, cedar flute Toronto Mozart Players David Bowser, conductor Tickets, here.
Find out more »April 2019
Music Toronto | The Hilario Duran Trio
Cuban-born Hilario Durán grew up in Havana in a musical family, and immigrated to Canada in 1998. A giant of Afro-Cuban jazz, Hilario Durán performed with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Michel Legrand and Arturo Sandoval. In his now 4-decade career, Durán has won multiple Junos and Canadian National Jazz Awards. For this special programme, Hilario will be joined by the Hilario Durán Trio: Hilario Durán – Piano, Roberto Occhipinti – Bass, Mark Kelso – Drums, and by Annalee Patipatanakoon…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Best of Hollywood
In this exciting and unforgettable concert, conductor Richard Kaufman presents Oscar-winning and -nominated music from Hollywood’s most memorable films. Complete with stories and anecdotes throughout the performance, this program features selections from such fabulous scores as Frozen, To Kill a Mockingbird, Out of Africa, Ben-Hur, Dr. Zhivago, The Wizard of Oz, The Magnificent Seven, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, and many more! Concert running time is approximately two hours including a 20-minute intermission. Tickets, here.
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Chamber Music Series: Castalian String Quartet
Free Concert Series: Haydn and BrittenCastalian String QuartetAPRIL 4, 2019 AT 12:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES The UK-based Castalian String Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting voice on the international chamber music scene, having won numerous prizes including the prestigious inaugural Merito String Quartet Award and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. They perform Haydn’s masterful String Quartet Op. 76, No. 2 “Fifths” and Britten’s String Quartet No. 2, which is a tribute to English composer Henry Purcell.
Find out more »Women’s Musical Club of Toronto | Mariam Batsashvili, piano
Mariam Batsashvili, piano April 4, 2019 | 1.30 pm | Walter Hall, U of T Now in her mid-20s, Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili already ranks among the most promising of young artists. She gained international recognition at the 10th Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, where she won First Prize as well as the Junior Jury Award and the Press Prize. This success led to her first performances with leading symphony orchestras and to an extensive program of recitals in more than…
Find out more »Opera Atelier | Mozart’s Idomeneo
Canadian superstar soprano Measha Brueggergosman returns to the Toronto opera stage in her award-winning performance as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo (April 4-13, 2019 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre).
Find out more »Against the Grain Theatre | Kopernikus
Montréalais composer Claude Vivier (1948–1983) lived a hard and fast life. Before he was found murdered in his hotel room in Paris at the age of 35, he had spent a career rejecting many traditional ideas of life, music and opera, which culminated in writing his only opera Kopernikus. Subtitled “a ritual opera for the dead”, this opera has gone on to become one of Canada’s most performed operas… outside of Canada. The (prophetic) premise? A woman has died and she…
Find out more »Esprit Orchestra | New Wave Reprise
NEW WAVE REPRISE Friday, April 5, 2019 7:30pm Concert Trinity St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St W PROGRAM Eugene Astapov (Canada)— New Work (2019)* Maria Atallah (Canada)— New Work (2019)** Quinn Jacobs (Canada) — New Work (2019)** Bekah Simms (Canada) — Cello Concerto (2019)* Christina Volpini (Canada) — New Work (2019)* Alison Yun-Fei Jiang (Canada)— New Work (2019)** *World Premiere commissioned by Esprit with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council **World Premiere commissioned by Esprit Orchestra More and more exceptional young Canadian composers are cropping up every day and our New Wave…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory of Music | Roby Lakatos
Virtuoso fiddler Roby Lakatos is a scorching player and a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally comfortable performing classical, jazz, and Hungarian folk music, Lakatos defies definition. He is a player whose strength as an interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and composer. Born into the legendary family of Gypsy violinists descended from János Bihari, "King of Gypsy Violinists," (who directly inspired the Gypsy music of Liszt and later Brahms in his Hungarian Dances) Lakatos’s musicianship evolved not…
Find out more »Attila Glatz Concert Productions | Zoltan Maga
Dazzling music by Hungary’s foremost violinist and his fiery orchestra: the Budapest Gypsy Virtuosi. Fiery music brought to life through the flair and passion of Hungary’s preeminent violin virtuoso, Zoltán Mága. As a crossover artist, Zoltán is equally at home in classical repertoire as he is with pop and Hungarian folk. Over his career he has shared the stage with 16-time Grammy-winner David Foster, Ekaterina Lekhina, Julia Novikova, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Aida Garifullina,and Shlomo Mintz, was featured on a…
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Vienna Boys Choir
A Vienna Boys Choir performance is an enchanting event. The “breathtaking” choir is “totally disciplined voices tempered by a singular sense of ease and consistency” (Washington Post). Boys have been singing at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor since the early 15th century. In 1498, more than half a millennium ago, Emperor Maximilian I moved his court and his court musicians to Vienna, and gave instructions that there were to be six singing boys among his musicians. Historians have…
Find out more »University of Toronto Faculty of Music | U of T Symphony Orchestra
URI MAYER, conductor YAO LU, saxophone (one of the 2017-18 UTSO Concerto Competition winners) TSE Continuum TOMASI Concerto for Alto Saxophone BRITTON Adizokan Suite STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring Tickets, here.
Find out more »Royal Conservatory | Richard Goode
“It is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight, subtle or otherwise, into the works he played or about pianism itself.” (The New York Times) Richard Goode has been acclaimed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness. Gramophone magazine captured the essence of what makes him such an original and compelling artist, '‘Every time we hear him, he impresses us as better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our…
Find out more »Canadian Opera Company | Piano Virtuoso Series: Rachmaninoff-Go-Round
Pianists of The GGS PIANO VIRTUOSO SERIES The Glenn Gould School piano studio comes together to perform a dazzling whirlwind of virtuoso works by Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Each pianist will take turns on the stage performing one of the Études-Tableaux or Moments Musicaux. Details, here.
Find out more »Soundstreams | Seven Deadly Sins
An original evening of sinful songs, served up naughty but nice by an eclectic group of composers and performers, each with their own errant point of view on these timeless transgressions. Join Soundstreams as we take a sly and sometimes irreverent look at these taboos across a spectrum of styles, genres and cultures. With new works and performances by singer-songwriters Elizabeth Shepherd, Aviva Chernick, Robin Dann; composers Christopher Mayo and Analia Llugdar, and more. It would be a sin to miss this! Tickets
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