Upcoming music performances in toronto

Compiled by Emilio Bernardo-Ciddio

OCTOBER:

• 21^st – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble @ Koerner Hall (works by Rossini, Mozart, and Schubert)
• 21^st – Canadian Opera Company performing Bellini’s “Norma”
• 21^st – Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra @ Martingrove CI, performing Gershwin and more
• 22^nd – Taylor Academy Showcase @ Mazzoleni Concert Hall
• 22^nd – Toronto Symphony Orchestra @ Roy Thomson Hall presents “Symphony Spooktacular”
• 22^nd – Canadian Opera Company performing Handel’s “Ariodante”
• 23^rd – Nathalie Paulin, Monica Whicher, Robert Kortgaard, and Peter Tiefenbach @ Mazzoleni Concert Hall
• 23^rd – Shen Yun Orchestra @ Roy Thomson Hall
• 23^rd – Canadian Opera Company performing Bellini’s “Norma”
• 23^rd – Orchestra Toronto with Maria Soulis @ Toronto Centre for the Arts (works by Elgar, Holst, and R. Vaughan Williams)
• 23^rd – Esprit Orchestra @ Koerner Hall (works by Schafer and more)
• 25^th – Janina Fialkowska @ Jane Mallet Theatre, performing Chopin
• 25^th-26^th – Talisker Players with Miriam Khalil, Lauren Segal, and Stewart Arnott @ Trinity St Paul’s Centre
• 25^th, 27^th, 29^th – Canadian Opera Company performing Handel’s “Ariodante”
• 26^th and 18^th – Canadian Opera Company performing Bellini’s “Norma”
• 26^th – Toronto Symphony Orchestra @ Roy Thomson Hall (works by Reich, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Kodaly)
• 28^th – Exultate Chamber Singers
• 29^th-30^th  – Toronto Symphony Orchestra with the Orpheus Choir @ Roy Thomson Hall, performing “Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton”
• 30^th – Judy Loman @ Mazzoleni Concert Hall (works by Salzedo, Renie, and more)
• 30^th – Kyiv Chamber Choir @ Koerner Hall
• 30^th – St. Philips Jazz Vespers with Jorge Lopez and the Mexico Amigo Mariachi @ All Saints Anglican Church
• 30^th – The Voicebox Chorus with Michael Nyby @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

NOVEMBER:

• 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th – Toronto Symphony Orchestra @ Roy Thomson Hall (works by Milhaud, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich)
• 2^nd-6^th – Tafelmusik Chamber Choir @ Jeanne Lamon (works by Handel, Zelenka, Steffani, and Rameau)
• 3^rd and 5^th – Opera York @ Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, performing Tosca
• 4^th – Canadian Opera Company performing Handel’s “Ariodante”
• 5^th-6^th – Pax Christi Chorale with the Bicycle Opera Project @ Grace Church-on-the-Hill, performing Elijah
• 5^th – Toronto Mendelssohn Choir @ Koerner Hall, performing Elijah
• 5^th – Nagata Shachu with Shogo Yoshii @ Kobayashi Hall
• 5^th – Canadian Opera Company performing Bellini’s “Norma”
• 6^th – Steven Schick @ Mazzoleni Concert Hall, works by Liang, Applebaum, Cage, and Xenakis
• 6^th – Weston Silver Band @ the Glenn Gould Studio (works by the Beatles and other works)
• 6^th – Toronto Operetta Theatre @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing a Tribute to Kalman and Lehar
• 10^th – Generation Next (Charles Richard-Hamelin, Tony Yike Yang, Alexander Seredenko, Stephane Tetreault, and Emily D’Angelo) @ Koerner Hall
• 11^th – That Choir @ Church of the Holy Trinity
• 11^th – David Briggs @ Lawrence Park Community Church (works by Bach, Franck, and Elgar)
• 11^th-12^th – Toronto Consort presents The Italian Queen of France @ the Living Arts Centre
• 12^th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra (works by Bruckner and Tchaikovsky)
• 12^th – Robert Michaels with the Greater Toronto Philharmonic
• 13^th – St. Philip’s Jazz Vespers with The Pat LaBarbera Quartet @ All Saints Anglican Church
• 18^th – the Syrinx Concerts via the Canadian Art Song Project with Martha Guth, Peter Barrett, Allyson McHardy, Helen Becque, and with Matthew Whitfield @ Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, performing “the Art Song of Healey Willan”
• 20^th – Voicebox Choir @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing The Capulets and the Montagues
• 27^th – St. Philip’s Jazz Vespers with Yvette Tollar, Dave Restivo, and Mike Downes @ All Saints Anglican Church, the Music of Joni Mitchell

DECEMBER:

• 1^st-3^rd – Adam Sherkin @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing Mozart piano works
• 1^st  – Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Canadian Children’s Opera Company @ Roy Thomson Hall, performing “The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring”
• 1^st-4^th – Tafaelmusik with Cristina Zacharias @ Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (works by Corelli, Vivaldi, and more)
• 2^nd – Elmer Iseler Singers with the Amadeus Choir, Allison Angelo, Andrea Ludwig, Zach Finkelstein, Peter McGillivray, Patricia Wright, Robert Venables, Robert DeVito, and more @ Metropolitan United Church, performing Handel’s “Messiah”
• 2^nd-3^rd – China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra with the Ottawa Bach Choir @ the Sony Centre, performing Masterpieces of Chinese Music
• 3^rd – Collaborative benefit performance featuring the True North Brass, Bach Children’s Choir, That Choir, Hedgerow Singers, Yorkminster Park Baptist Church Choir, Alexis Gordon, and Kenneth Welsh @ Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
• 6^th – Tafaelmusik with Cristina Zacharias @ Toronto Centre for the Arts, works by Corelli, Vivaldi, and more
• 7^th – Toronto Mendelssohn Choir with the Canadian Staff Band and David Briggs @ Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
• 9^th – Exultate Chamber Singers
• 9^th – Canadian Men’s Chorus
• 9^th-10^th, 11^th – The Toronto Consort presents “A Medieval Christmas”
• 10^th – Bach Children’s Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir @ Toronto Centre for the Arts
• 10^th-11^th – Pax Christi Chorale with Shannon Mercer and the Aslan Boys Choir @ Grace Church on-the-Hill, works by Parry, Palestrina, and Part
• 12^th – Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto @ Roy Thomson Hall
• 14^th-17^th – Tafelmusik Chamber Choir with Guest Soloists @ Koerner Hall, performing Handel’s “Messiah”
• 17^th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra with Valerie Tryon and the Tryptych Concert and Opera, works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Menotti
• 17^th – Mississauga Symphony Orchestra @ Hammerson Hall, performing Highlights from “Messiah”
• 17^th – Pax Christi Chorale @ Church of St. Mary Magdalene, performing “Children’s Messiah”
• 17^th – Toronto Children’s Chorus@ Roy Thomson Hall, performing “A Child’s Christmas”
• 18^th – Tafelmusik Chamber Choir with Guest Soloists @ Massey Hall, performing Handel’s “Messiah”
• 18^th – That Choir with the Wexford Collegiate Chamber Choir @ St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
• 19^th – Nadina Mackie Jackson with top Toronto Bassoonists such as Michael Sweeney, Catherine Chen, and Samuel Banks @ Heliconian Hall, performing Vivaldi concerti
• 27^th, 30^th, 31^st – Toronto Operetta Theatre @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing “The Pirates of Penzance”
• 31^st – Strauss Symphony of Canada with Guests @ Roy Thomson Hall, performing “A Salute to Vienna,” consisting of Viennese repertoire to celebrate the coming new year

January

• 6^th-8^th – Toronto Operetta Theatre @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing “The Pirates of Penzance”
• 29^th, 31^st – Talisker Players, performing the best of the Gershwin Songbook

February

• 2^nd – Victoria Cholars Men’s Choral Ensemble and the Choirs of St. Michael’s Choir Scool @ Roy Thomson Hall, performing Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and more
• 11^th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra with the Tryptych Concert and Opera, works by Puccini and Tchaikovsky
• 25^th – Canadian Men’s Chorus

March

• 2^nd – Mendelssohn Singers @ Roy Thomson Hall
• 11^th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra with the UTSC Concert Choir, Saint Joseph’s R.C.C Parish Choir, and the Grand River Chorus, works by Faure and Mozart
• 8^th – Chris Botti @ Roy Thomson Hall
• 23^rd – Marc-Andre Hamelin @ Jane Mallet Theatre, works by Haydn, Feinberg, Beethoven, Scriabin, Chopin
• 24^th – Exultate Chamber Singers
• 28^th-29^th – Talisker Players, performing Songs of Canada’s first European Settlers

April

• 7^th – Nathaniel Dett Chorale @ Roy Thomson Hall
• 7^th-9^th – Nagata Shachu @ Aki Studio Theatre
• 29^th – Canadian Men’s Chorus

May

• 16^th-17^th – Talisker Players
• 26^th – Exultate Chamber Singers
• 27th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra with Ballet Jorgen