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Musical Toronto\u2019s weekly Critic\u2019s Picks are a fully curated list of some of the best concerts happening now through the end of the week. This is not to say we are the provocateurs of taste, but simply seek to provide a good weekly summary. For a look at the full breadth of what\u2019s available in and around Toronto, check out our curated concert listings here: Musical Toronto Datebook<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n One piece of news that caught my eye is Mozart@261, the annual Mozart celebrations put on by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Jan 11 \u2013 14), featuring the great pianist Emanuel Ax<\/a> and others. What makes these concerts extra special this year is the venue \u2014 not the usual Roy Thomson Hall which is a bit cavernous for Mozart, but at the more intimate and acoustically friendlier Koerner Hall. I thought this was a first for the TSO, until their publicist Francine Labelle reminds me that the orchestra played in Koerner back in August 2014, as part of the Toronto Summer Musical Festival. \u00a0American pianist and Van Cliburn Competition laureate Sean Chen makes his Toronto debut (Jan. 10<\/a>) in a program of Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Ligeti. Windermere String Quartet plays a program of Haydn and Ignace Pleyel, with guest artist soprano Meredith Hall (Jan. 15<\/a>). \u00a0Tafelmusik is giving a free concert, The String Orchestra in Baroque Italy<\/em>, featuring musicians from their Winter Institute (Jan. 11<\/a>). For something a little different, catch the Tony Award-winning musical, The Secret Garden<\/em>, presented in concert with orchestra at Trinity St. Paul\u2019s Centre (Jan. 13\u201315<\/a>).<\/p>\n Canadian Opera Company<\/span> | Vocal Series: Across the Channel<\/em>, at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Noon. Free!<\/p>\n As part of the COC\u2019s free noon hour Vocal Series, singers from the Rebanks Family Fellowship at the Glenn Gould School give a recital including selections from Canteloube\u2019s Songs of the Auvergne<\/em> and Samuel Barber\u2019s Dover Beach<\/em>, accompanied by a string quartet. Be sure to show up early to line up to get in. Program details, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Music Toronto<\/span> | Sean Chen, piano. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre. 8 p.m. $55<\/p>\n American pianist and Van Cliburn Competition Laureate Sean Chen makes his Toronto debut in this recital of works by Ligeti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven, under the auspices of Music Toronto. Details, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tafelmusik<\/span> | The Orchestra in Baroque Italy, at Trinity St. Paul\u2019s Centre. 7:30 p.m. Free (Donations welcome)<\/p>\n Participants from the Tafelmusik Winter Institute present a concert of works by Caldara, Corelli, Cazzati, Locatelli, Torelli, and others. Info, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Toronto Symphony Orchestra\/Royal Conservatory<\/span> | Mozart@261 Festival, at Koerner Hall. 8 p.m. $39+(Repeats Jan 12)<\/p>\n TSO, in partnership with the Royal Conservatory of Music, presents Magnificent Mozart<\/em>, a concert featuring 14-year old Canadian pianist Leonid Nediak in Piano Concerto No.27 K595. Also on the program is Rondo for Violin K373 and Symphony No.40 K550. Kerson Leong is the violin soloist, conducted by Peter Oundjian. More details, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Toronto Symphony Orchestra\/Royal Conservatory<\/span> | Mozart@261 Festival, at Koerner Hall. 7:30 p.m. From $39 (Repeats Jan. 14 8 p.m.)<\/p>\n Toronto Symphony Orchestra\/Royal Conservatory of Music presents Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart<\/em>. The great pianist plays two Mozart Piano Concertos \u2013 No. 14 and 22, paired with Symphony No. 33, K. 319. Michael Francis conducts. Info, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Podium Concert Productions<\/span> | The Secret Garden<\/em>, at Trinity St. Paul\u2019s Centre. 7:30 p.m. $39 \u201379. (Repeats Jan 14\u201315)<\/p>\n We don\u2019t cover musicals very often, but here\u2019s one! Podium Concert Productions presents the Tony Award-winning musical, The Secret Garden<\/em>, in concert for three performances. Music by Lucy Simon, lyrics and book by Marsha Norman, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. See here<\/a>, for more details.<\/p>\n Royal Conservatory<\/span> | Mazzoleni Masters, at Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Telus Centre. 2 p.m. $25<\/p>\n Diana Doherty, Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Canadian violinist Dennis Kim, recently appointed Concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic, join forces in Bach\u2019s Concerto for Violin and Oboe, Mozart\u2019s Oboe Quartet, Dorati\u2019s Duo Concertante, and \u201cWinter\u201d from Vivaldi\u2019s The Four Seasons<\/em>. Info, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Windermere String Quartet<\/span> | Heard in the Hanover Rooms<\/em>, at St. Olaf\u2019s Anglican Church, 360 Windermere Ave. 3 p.m. $25<\/p>\n The period instrument ensemble, Windermere String Quartet, presents a concert featuring the works of Haydn and Ignace Pleyel, with soloist Meredith Hall (soprano). Details, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? 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