Upcoming music performances in toronto

Compiled by Emilio Bernardo-Ciddio

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OCTOBER:

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

NOVEMBER:

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

DECEMBER:

  • 1st-3rd – Adam Sherkin @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing Mozart piano works
  • 1st  – 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”
  • 1st-4th – Tafaelmusik with Cristina Zacharias @ Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (works by Corelli, Vivaldi, and more)
  • 2nd – 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”
  • 2nd-3rd – China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra with the Ottawa Bach Choir @ the Sony Centre, performing Masterpieces of Chinese Music
  • 3rd – 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
  • 6th – Tafaelmusik with Cristina Zacharias @ Toronto Centre for the Arts, works by Corelli, Vivaldi, and more
  • 7th – Toronto Mendelssohn Choir with the Canadian Staff Band and David Briggs @ Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
  • 9th – Exultate Chamber Singers
  • 9th – Canadian Men’s Chorus
  • 9th-10th, 11th – The Toronto Consort presents “A Medieval Christmas”
  • 10th – Bach Children’s Chorus and Bach Chamber Youth Choir @ Toronto Centre for the Arts
  • 10th-11th – Pax Christi Chorale with Shannon Mercer and the Aslan Boys Choir @ Grace Church on-the-Hill, works by Parry, Palestrina, and Part
  • 12th – Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto @ Roy Thomson Hall
  • 14th-17th – Tafelmusik Chamber Choir with Guest Soloists @ Koerner Hall, performing Handel’s “Messiah”
  • 17th – Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra with Valerie Tryon and the Tryptych Concert and Opera, works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Menotti
  • 17th – Mississauga Symphony Orchestra @ Hammerson Hall, performing Highlights from “Messiah”
  • 17th – Pax Christi Chorale @ Church of St. Mary Magdalene, performing “Children’s Messiah”
  • 17th – Toronto Children’s Chorus@ Roy Thomson Hall, performing “A Child’s Christmas”
  • 18th – Tafelmusik Chamber Choir with Guest Soloists @ Massey Hall, performing Handel’s “Messiah”
  • 18th – That Choir with the Wexford Collegiate Chamber Choir @ St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
  • 19th – Nadina Mackie Jackson with top Toronto Bassoonists such as Michael Sweeney, Catherine Chen, and Samuel Banks @ Heliconian Hall, performing Vivaldi concerti
  • 27th, 30th, 31st – Toronto Operetta Theatre @ St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, performing “The Pirates of Penzance”
  • 31st – 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

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

February

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

March

  • 2nd – Mendelssohn Singers @ Roy Thomson Hall
  • 11th – 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
  • 8th – Chris Botti @ Roy Thomson Hall
  • 23rd – Marc-Andre Hamelin @ Jane Mallet Theatre, works by Haydn, Feinberg, Beethoven, Scriabin, Chopin
  • 24th – Exultate Chamber Singers
  • 28th-29th – Talisker Players, performing Songs of Canada’s first European Settlers

April

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

May

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