October 2018
Tafelmusik | Vivaldi Con Amore
A celebration of Vivaldi’s most energetic and amorous concertos, starring Tafelmusik’s own musicians. Our long association with Antonio Vivaldi has entered a new phase with the arrival of Music Director Elisa Citterio. In this celebration of the composer's unmatched vivacity and inventiveness, we present a colourful bouquet of Vivaldi concertos. After her electric performances of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons last year, Elisa takes the solo role in his love-themed concertos “L'amoroso” and “L'amato bene”, which will be featured on the 2019 release…
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Autumn Celebration
Join Michael Newnham and the musicians of Orchestra Toronto as we open our 2018-19 season with an autumnal orchestral celebration. Kevin Lau is an award-winning Canadian composer. His dramatic three-part orchestral portrait of Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon recalls Holst’s The Planets. Anastasia Rizikoff is a celebrated young Canadian pianist. In Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, she and the orchestra will perform 24 variations on a tune that Niccolo Paganini originally wrote for the violin. A…
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Elmer Iseler Singers/Toronto Children’s Chorus | We Remember
In collaboration with the Toronto Children’s Chorus — The Chamber Choir and T.C.C.’s Toronto Youth Choir, we present a special commemoration concert of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. We will perform works relating to war and peace that represent the four Allied Nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The program will feature a new world première of WWI popular songs arranged by Canadian Composer Stuart Calvert. Participants include: Choirs Toronto Children’s Chorus, Elise Bradley, conductor Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia…
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Orchestra Toronto | The Snowman and Friends
The Snowman* and Friends Sunday, December 9, 2018 - 3:00pm Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham A seasonal family celebration, featuring a screening of the animated classic The Snowman, with live orchestral music. Join Orchestra Toronto and special guests at our family-oriented concert to bring music and warmth to a chilly time of year. Generations of children of all ages have enjoyed, The Snowman,*a wintertime classic animated film with a magical score by Howard Blake. Toronto-based composer Ron Royer's A Canadian Christmas…
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | TSYO Winter Concert
The TSYO delivers a powerhouse program starting with the charming and vigorous Carnival Overture by Canadian Oskar Morawetz. Hannah Corbett—a 2017/18 TSYO Concerto Competition winner—brings an invigorating element to the program, with her performance of the show-stopping first movement of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with the grandiose Second Symphony by Rachmaninov. Tickets, here.
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…
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Orchestra Toronto | Watershed: The Music of Earth’s Waters
Watershed: The Music of Earth’s Waters A Symphonic exploration of Earth's Waters. Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 3:00pm Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham As Earth Day approaches, Orchestra Toronto presents a meditation on Earth’s waters. FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Unity Vocal Ensemble* ON THE PROGRAM Christine Donkin – Canoe Legends* Bedřich Smetana – Vitava (The Moldau) Anatoly Lyadov – The Enchanted Lake Duke Ellington (arr. R. Collier) – The River Suite Tickets BUY TICKETS or call 1-855-985-ARTS…
Find out more »Tafelmusik | The Hunt: Mozart and Haydn
Jeanne Lamon returns for this classical concert featuring the nobility of the horn. Tafelmusik's Music Director Emerita returns to direct this classical program featuring music by friends and colleagues, Haydn and Mozart, and with the noble and unmistakable sound of the classical horn at its heart. Tafelmusik’s Scott Wevers takes the solo part in Mozart’s joyous Horn Concerto no. 4, continuing our new cycle of Mozart concertos. Four horns take the stage in Mozart’s youthful and dramatic Symphony no. 25…
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Lauded in the London Evening Standard as a “high-calibre interpreter of a wide range of repertoire,” the electrifying British conductor Nicholas Collon has recently made memorable débuts with major European ensembles, and takes up the position of Chief Conductor with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague, Netherlands, this September. For his TSO début, he conducts Beethoven’s most explosive symphony. Israeli pianist Shai Wosner, whom the Washington Post has acclaimed as “superb,” joins him for one of Mozart’s most gracious piano concertos. Concert running time…
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Primavera
Primavera Sunday, May 26, 2019 - 3:00pm Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Springtime brings warmth and delight. What better way to bring in springtime’s warmth than with lush Romantic music? FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Dominic Desautels – Clarinet* ON THE PROGRAM Rossini – La gazza ladra Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet concerto No.1 in F minor* Britten/Rossini – Les matinées musicales, Op.24 Respighi – The Pines of Rome Tickets BUY TICKETS or call 1-855-985-ARTS (2787) to…
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Orchestra Toronto | Freude! 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23 in A-minor Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D-minor FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Elijah Orlenko – Piano Lesley Bouza – Soprano Andrea Ludwig – Mezzo soprano Andrew Walker – Tenor Bradley Christensen – Baritone The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Link for tickets, see here.
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Toronto Symphpny Orchestra | Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Year after year, season after season, the music of Vivaldi blooms in perennial splendour. Concertmaster Jonathan Crow is the soloist, and leads his TSO colleagues, in Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons. He also leads an American classic—Aaron Copland’s joyous Appalachian Spring, featuring the inspiring hymn, “Simple Gifts”—and a work by Yellowknife composer Carmen Braden that was inspired by the ceaseless summer twilight experienced in extreme northern and southern regions. (Pictured: Jonathan Crow, TSO Concertmaster) Performances are roughly two hours long, including a 20-minute…
Find out more »Toronto Symphpny Orchestra | TSYO & Samuel Kerr
Program: Mussorgsky/orch. Rimsky-Korsakov: St. John’s Night on Bald Mountain (original version) Ney Rosauro: Concerto No. 1 for Marimba Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Performers: Simon Rivard, TSO RBC Resident Conductor Samuel Kerr, marimba (2018/19 TSYO Concerto Competition winner) Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra
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Orchestra Toronto | The Winters of Childhood
Claude Debussy, Children’s Corner Abigail Richardson-Schulte, The Hockey Sweater Piotr Illych Tchaikovsky: Selections from “Nutcracker” Charles Heller: Hanukkah! Hanukkah! Seasonal sing-along! FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Link for tickets, see here.
Find out more »Tafelmusik | O Come, Shepherds
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra with Vesuvius Ensemble Special guest: Tommaso Sollazzo, zampogna The joy of the holiday season shines with the pastoral warmth of the Italian countryside. For centuries, the sound of the zampogna, special bagpipes played by shepherds, has been a central part of Italian Christmas festivities. Now you'll hear this fabulous folk instrument in this concert blending baroque Italian Christmas concertos with the heartfelt Christmas music of Southern Italy, performed by Toronto's own Vesuvius Ensemble.
Find out more »January 2020
Li Delun Music Foundation | New Year’s Concert
AN EAST-MEETS-WEST CONCERT OF FAVOURITE CLASSICS IN CELEBRATING THE 250TH BIRTHDAY OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN CONCERT OF HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR SERIES CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF CANADA AND CHINA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS Presented by Li Delun Music Foundation TORONTO FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Conductor: Junping Qian Assistant Conductor of Royal Scottish National Orchestra Piano: Haochen Zhang First Prize Winner, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Violin: Ti Zhang Prize winner, The IX International Tchaikovsky Competition Host: Kemin Zhang Concertmaster: Lifan Zhu PROGRAMME: Wagner:“Rienzi”Overture Rossini:“William…
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Mozart at 40
Program Mozart: Overture to Così fan tutte, K. 588 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271 “Jeunehomme” Intermission Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 550 Performers Bernard Labadie, conductor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
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Orchestra Toronto | Telling a Tale with Tom Allen
Jean Sibelius: En Saga Elizabeth Raum: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Antonin Dvořák: Noonday Witch Sergei Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet (Suites 1, 2 and 3) FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Tom Allen – Storyteller and Host Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Link for tickets, see here.
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Tafelmusik | The Indigo Project
Alison Mackay’s superb multimedia creations, blending music, visuals, narration, dance, and social commentary, are now famous the world over. In this latest offering, she traces the significance of the introduction into 17th-century Europe of indigofera tinctoria, the indigo dye that provided both the royal blue of the Bourbon courts and the colour of the cotton fabric worn by the common folk, known as denim. This fascinating social and musical journey travels from the courts of Europe to the lowest classes of…
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Lisiecki Plays Beethoven’s Emperor
Piano wunderkind Jan Lisiecki has been praised by The New York Times for his “pristine, lyrical, and intelligent” playing. Former TSO Music Director Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts him and the Orchestra in Beethoven’s regal “Emperor” Concerto. (Pictured: Jan Lisiecki, piano) Performances are roughly two hours long, including a 20-minute intermission.
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Sueños Ibericos
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol Geoges Bizet: Selections/arias from “Carmen” (Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano) Manuel de Falla: “Fire Music” from El amor brujo (Love the Magician) (with The Esmerelda Enrique Dance Company) Manuel de Falla: Three-cornered Hat Suite 1 and/or 2 FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Julie Nesrallah – Mezzo-soprano Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Ticket's available here.
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Orchestra Toronto | Sketches of Our Ancestors
Bela Bartok: Hungarian Sketches Aram Khachaturian: Gayane Suite no. 3 An-Lun Huang: Four Ancients Scores from Dunhaug, with Snow Bai, Erhu soloist Witold Lutosławski: Mała suita (Little suite) George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody no. 1, op. 11 A major FEATURING Michael Newnham – Conductor Snow Bai – Erhu Pre-concert chat at 2:15 with Michael Newnham Tickets available here.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | All Beethoven
Program Beethoven: Violin Romance No. 1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Intermission Beethoven: Violin Concerto Performers Sir Andrew Davis, conductor James Ehnes, violin
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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…
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Orchestra Toronto | An Indigo Christmas With The Nathaniel Dett Chorale
On The Program: Michael McElroy and Jonathan Joubert: Great Joy II: Christmas Around the World with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, Music Director, and Corey Butler, pianist. This holiday season, two great Toronto ensembles join forces in a joyful holiday celebration. Orchestra Toronto and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale come together to create great music with Great Joy: a gospel-inspired celebration of Christmas around the world. *pre-concert chat at 7:15
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Orchestra Toronto | Carmen
Carmen! With Julie Nesrallah, Mezzo-Soprano On The Program: Elizabeth Raum: Flamenco Dance Manuel de Falla El Amor Brujo, with Julie Nesrallah Georges Bizet: Selections from Carmen, with Julie Nesrallah Manuel de Falla: Three-Cornered Hat Suite #2 Mezzo soprano Julie Nesrallah, one of Canada’s foremost interpreters of Bizet’s opera, brings the fire and passion of Carmen to Orchestra Toronto, in a programme of music inspired by Spain’s history, romance, and drama. *pre-concert chat at 2:15
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Sinfonia Toronto | Chopin & Dvorak
Chopin & Dvorak SINFONIA TORONTO NURHAN ARMAN Conductor KEVIN AHFAT Pianist New Lands - Let's travel together in beautiful music by composers far from home - Chopin's Polish-tinged Piano Concerto, Montreal composer Vania Angelova's miniatures with Bulgarian folk flavour, and a great work the Czech Dvorak began writing in North America. Program CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 VANIA ANGELOVA Polyphonic Miniatures world premiere DVORAK Sinfonia Op. 105a (String Quartet No. 14) Virtual concert ticket: $15 BUY VIRTUAL TICKET Tickets for…
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Pax Christi Chorale | Considering Matthew Shepard
With Megan Miceli (soprano), Camille Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Vicki St. Pierre (mezzo-soprano), Alex Samaras (tenor/baritone), Phillip Addis (baritone) and a chamber ensemble featuring the Odin Quartet (Tanya Charles Iveniuk, violin, Alex Toskov, viola, Samuel Bison, cello), Brent Crawford (guitar), Kaye Royer (clarinet), Christina Faye (piano) and Naoko Tsujita, (percussion).
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | Brahms And The Raums
On The Program: Elizabeth Raum: Concerto for Violin, with Erika Raum Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 1, op 68 A celebration of music, family, and community, featuring the “energetic individuality” of celebrated violinist Erika Raum, performing the concerto written for her by Orchestra Toronto’s composer-in-residence Elizabeth Raum. Brahms’ masterpiece Symphony No. 1 will bring the orchestra together for a resounding conclusion.
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Sinfonia Toronto | Schubert & Shostakovich
Schubert & Shostakovich SINFONIA TORONTO NURHAN ARMAN Conductor BESTE KALENDER Mezzosoprano Glancing Back, Forging Ahead - From pandemics past to the unquenchable life of folk tunes, we look ahead with a work Shostakovich called "spring-like" plus Toronto composer Saman Shahi's Suspended Doorways and Schubert's musical triumph of light over dark. Program STANLEY GRILL “1918” for voice and orchestra world premiere SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony Opus 49a De FALLA Seven Popular Spanish Songs SAMAN SHAHI Suspended Doorways SCHUBERT Sinfonia in G Minor…
Find out more »Orchestra Toronto | The Planets
On The Program: Gustav Holst, The Planets, with members of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir TBA cello concerto, with the winner of the 2020 Marta Hidy Prize for Cello (TBA) As a grand finale to our 2021-22 season, Orchestra Toronto presents the winner of the 2020 Marta Hidy Prize for Cello (TBD September 2021), in a cello concerto to be selected by this young virtuoso. We conclude the season with Gustav Holsts’s masterpiece The Planets, with the professional core of the…
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Sinfonia Toronto | Dvorak & Doubles
Sinfonia Toronto's "DVORAK & DOUBLES - Canadian Superstars" concert will feature two iconic Canadian artists, pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and violinist Marc Djokic in double concertos by two of eminent Canadian composers, Alice Ping Yee Ho and Christos Hatzis.
Find out more »Ontario Pops Orchestra | Hispanic / Latin American Heritage Month Gala Concert
The Ontario Pops Orchestra is one of the most diverse professional orchestras in Canada. Music director Carlos Bastidas and the musicians of the Ontario Pops Orchestra open the 2022-2023 Heritage and Diversity Concert Season with the Hispanic/Latin American Heritage Month Gala Concert. This concert will be a celebration of Latin Culture with performances by the orchestra and special guests Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company, Tango dancers Roxana & Fabian, Mexican Folk Ballet, Latin Diva Cuban singer Marta Elena and Karla…
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Oundjian Conducts Mozart’s Jupiter
Mozart is synonymous with jaw-dropping ingenuity, and his final symphony sets off a musical fireworks display the likes of which had never been seen before. TSO Principal Clarinet Eric Abramovitz and Bass Clarinet Miles Jaques take center stage for Mendelssohn’s sunny Konzertstück No. 2.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Mozart Requiem
Mozart’s genius burns with brooding intensity in the legendary Requiem that was to become his own funeral music. Instantly recognizable thanks to its use in the multi-Academy-Award-winning film Amadeus, to experience it live is to feel its brilliance.
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Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerts | Winter Concerts (Sold out)
"For me, music begins where words cease..." declared Sibelius.
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Sinfonia Toronto | Mozart & Shostakovich
Rays of hope
A brilliant young pianist in the famous ‘Elvira Madigan’ concerto, and Shostakovich’s passionate post-war WHY?
Soundstreams | Steve Reich: Now & Then
We celebrate American composer Steve Reich’s 86th birthday with STEVE REICH: Now & Then. The evening’s program includes Drumming, featuring legendary percussion ensemble NEXUS, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary, and TorQ Percussion Quartet.
Find out more »Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Gimeno Conducts Beethoven 5
The most famous four notes in music usher in a towering masterpiece for the ages in Beethoven’s timeless and immortal Fifth Symphony.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Mandolin Magic
The “explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) Avi Avital is the first mandolin player ever to be nominated for a GRAMMY®
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Sinfonia Toronto | Mozart & Shostakovich
Rays of hope
A brilliant young pianist in the famous ‘Elvira Madigan’ concerto,
and Shostakovich’s passionate post-war WHY?
Find out more »Sinfonia Toronto | Verdi & Franck
Delicious romance
Two of the most intense 19th-century works from the maturity of genius composers, and a brilliant Canadian pianist!
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Sinfonia Toronto | Beethoven’s Fifth! 25th & 5th!
Beethoven's Fifth! 25th & 5th!
Beethoven’s best, a brilliant premiere and spectacular violin virtuosity
Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Beethoven’s Seventh
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.
Find out more »January 2024
Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Oundjian Conducts Rachmaninoff
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Peter Oundjian leads Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony, brimming with dream-like serenity and spirited Russian rhythms. John Adams’s jazz- influenced 2013 commission, Saxophone Concerto is an animated and energetic display of the instrument’s dexterity and range, performed by the incomparable Steven Banks in its Canadian Première, and a World Première by Toronto Symphony Orchestra NextGen Composer Katerina Gimon opens the performance.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Britannia
Be transported back in time and “across the pond” with the TSYO’s winter concert, which will showcase the best of Britain through classic works by Holst, Elgar, and Debussy.
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Sinfonia Toronto | Schumann & De Falla – Vituoso Voyages
Travel through France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain with two guest stars
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