Discounted Performance Announcement

Written by Emilio Bernardo-Ciddio

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This weekend, the Pax Christi Chorale is performing “Elijah.” This will be a fantastic performance, and they have been generous and set up a special student preview performance. York’s own professor Stephanie Martin is the Artistic Director of the ensemble, so a presence of York music students would be welcome! On Friday night at 7pm, any student can attend the performance at a (very) low cost of only $5! Students may either purchase a cheap ticket at the door (just tell them you are a student, and have your student ID on you just in case), or purchase a ticket online. Read More

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

Artist-run centres to visit in Toronto

By Vaiva Slapsys


Artist-run centres are great little gallery spaces that are run by artists, for artists. The shows are always changing, and you can always find cool local art in some cute little spaces. And more often than not, they’re FREE! Here’s a list of some free artist-run centres in Toronto that I recommend you check out!
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